Rate My Professor Candace Kruger

Kruger is the founder and director of the Yugambeh Youth Aboriginal Corporation and choirmaster of the Yugambeh Youth Choir, established in 2014 to empower urban Indigenous youth via song practice in language. Key publications encompass her co-authored book Yugambeh Talga: Music Traditions of the Yugambeh People (2005); “A festival of song” in The Routledge Handbook of Festivals (2018); “Call to Yawahr: Opening a third space for collaborative music making between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities” (2022); the book chapter “Indigenous knowledges and learners” (2024); and “A theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in first year university students” (2024). Her research interests cover ethnomusicology, Aboriginal music, Indigenous pedagogy, knowledges, and education. The choir received the Queensland Reconciliation Award in 2016 for its impact on urban Indigenous youth. Additional contributions include co-composing “Morning Star and Evening Star” for the Australian Music Examinations Board National Online Orchestra (2021), delivering Welcome to Country ceremonies, workshops, public lectures, and serving on the Australian Association for Research in Education Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researcher Executive Committee. Kruger's work advances Indigenous cultural preservation and educational equity.