Dr Fiona Foley is from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation. Foley exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally. In 2014 she was the recipient of an Australia Council Visual Arts.

She is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and symposia all over the world. Most recently she convened Courting Blakness- Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University (2014) at the University of Queensland, where she was an Adjunct Professor (2011-2017).

Foley completed her fourth film titled, Out of the Sea Like Cloud in 2019. Recent exhibitions include a twenty-five year photographic retrospective titled, Who are these strangers and where are they going? Dr Fiona Foley is currently a Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal writer, researcher and academic from Dharawal Country in NSW. Bronwyn has received three Australian Research Council grants and is a past winner of the Stanner Award. She is the author of The Politics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today? and is a well known commentator on the place of monuments in Australia.

Bronwyn delivered the keynote ‘Breaking with the past, dis(re)membering the monuments’ at the 2019 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference and in 2020 authored The Conversation’s Friday essay ‘Taking a wrecking ball to monuments – contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down’. She is founder and editor of the Journal of Global Indigeneity and convenor of The Forum for Indigenous Research Excellence, a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Sociology and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Ambelin Kwaymullina loves reading sci-fi and fantasy books, and has wanted to write a novel since she was six years old.

She comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. When not writing or reading she teaches law, illustrates picture books and hangs out with her dogs.

She has previously written a number of children’s books, both alone and with other members of her family.

Her first novel, The Tribe 1: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, was short-listed for the 2012 Aurealis Awards in both the Science Fiction and Young Adult Fiction categories.

Jen Nielsen is a rockstar, a Scholastic exclusive author, who is perfectly positioned to promote this series.

Jen has a strong fanbase, is always well-reviewed, and aces her public appearances.

Andrew Brookes completed RAF pilot training after graduating from Leeds University. Following recce and strike tours on Victors, Canberras and Vulcans during which he logged 3,500 flying hours, he joined the tri-service policy and plans staff of Commander British Forces, Hong Kong.

After being in charge of the multi-engine, helicopter and flying training desks in the RAF Inspectorate of Flight Safety, he was appointed as the last operational RAF commander at the Greenham Common cruise missile base.

He studied International Relations at Downing College, Cambridge, before becoming a group director at the RAF Advanced Staff College. From 1999-2009 he was aerospace specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Jessica Walton is a queer, disabled writer and teacher. She is the author of picture book Introducing Teddy (Bloomsbury 2016), as well as a range of short stories published in anthologies for kids and teens. In 2017 Jess completed a Write-ability Fellowship with Writers Victoria focused on poetry about disability, cancer and pain.

She is currently completing their Publishability Fellowship, which continues this work. She recently co-wrote an episode of Get Krack!n focused on disability, which aired on the ABC in February 2019 and is featured in the anthologies Meet Me At the Intersection (Fremantle Press 2019) and Growing Up Disabled in Australia (Black Inc Books 2020).