Natalie Bryant is a Yuin woman and PhD candidate at the Australian National University, supported by the Sir Roland Wilson Pat Turner Scholarship. Her doctoral research examines how structural features of Australian policymaking systematically marginalise Indigenous perspectives, using a case study of the 2007–2011 national health reform process to reveal how white possessive logics operate through ostensibly neutral governmental structures. Drawing on Aileen Moreton-Robinson's theorisation of Patriarchal White Possessive Logic and Indigenist research methodologies, her work sits at the intersection of public policy and critical Indigenous studies. 

Natalie developed the Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis (ICPA) framework, a rights-based tool for analysing policies against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues. She was awarded the 2024 Pat Turner (Research) Prize for rigorous and accessible research. 

Natalie has over 15 years' experience in health policy across Australian state and federal government.