She is known for her film Satellite Boy and television series Kiki and Kitty (written by Nakkiah Lui) and Wrong Kind of Black.
[2][3] She graduated with Honours in 2001, and afterwards studied screenwriting at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
[1] She has also worked on numerous other TV series, including Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Tidelands, Harrow, The Warriors, Dance Academy, The Circuit, Redfern Now and The Gods of Wheat Street.
She is the first Indigenous Australian woman to direct a TV series in the US (the supernatural drama Shadowhunters).
[5] In 2018 McKenzie founded her own production company, Dark Horse, which she hopes will be a vehicle to provide opportunities for new, diverse voices.