Collingwood has appointed Professor Larissa Behrendt AO to head an independent review of the environment at the club between 2005-2014.
The Collingwood Integrity Committee appointed an independent review of the culture at the club in the wake of accounts of racism made by Heritier Lumumba.
Professor Behrendt and a team of researchers will revisit the time Lumumba played at the club and investigate the lack of cultural safety during that period.
Professor Behrendt is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology, Sydney.
She chaired the federal government's major review into Indigneous higher education in 2011.
In 2009, Professor Behrendt was named NAIDOC Person of the Year and in 2020 was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her service to the law, Indigenous education and the arts.
