Assoc. Prof. Ali Gumillya Baker 

Assoc. Prof. Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning woman from the Nullarbor on the West Coast of South Australia. She is a visual artist, performer, filmmaker, Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and Creative Arts in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Flinders University, and member of the Unbound Collective, four Aboriginal artists, activists, and academics. Her areas of research interest include colonial archives, memory and intergenerational transmission of knowledge. 

Dr. Eugenia Flynn 

Dr. Eugenia Flynn is a Larrakia, Tiwi, Chinese Malaysian and Muslim writer, researcher and community organiser. She is currently the Vice Chancellor's Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing and Publishing at the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. Eugenia's research is interdisciplinary and focuses on Indigenous literature, storytelling, and creative practice - together with Indigenous knowledges, and race and gender studies. Eugenia's creative practice explores narratives of truth, grief, and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender.  

Dr. Faye Rosas Blanch

Dr. Faye Rosas Blanch is a Murri woman from the Atherton Tablelands of Yidniji/Mbarbarm descent. She has worked on Kaurna Land in Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for many years, and is presently Senior Lecturer in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, where she leads decolonial, arts-based and Indigenous education courses. Dr Rosas Blanch has worked as an Aboriginal Education Worker, a secondary teacher and a tertiary lecturer. She has published with respect to Indigenous students, community and schooling, and presented at conferences regarding Indigenous ways of being.  

Dr. Fiona Foley 

Assoc. Prof. Fiona Foley FAHA has a national and international profile as a leading contemporary artist and historian. She is currently a Principal Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. Her work has produced substantial new knowledge around the Queensland Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act (1897). Her monograph Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act was awarded the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance in 2021, alongside a Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In recognition of her very fine achievements, Fiona has been elected an Honorary Fellow in the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Most recently, Fiona was awarded a DECRA for her project, “Investigating the Agency of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorials”.

Dr. Jen Mason

Dr Jen Mason is a Wamba Wamba and Dhudhuroa woman, serving as a Postdoctorate Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Culture, History and Language. Her research, focused on cultural mapping, delves into cultural engagement and its socio-environmental impacts. Presently, her project “Warreba” incorporates oral histories to construct a digital twin of Wamba Wamba Kurrek, preserving significant sites and traditions. Dr. Mason’s future endeavours aim to explore river songloines, tracing their connections from the birth of rivers on Dhudhuroa Country to the Murray River’s vast reaches to the west. Her work illuminates the deep cultural ties uniting communities. 

Judy Watson

Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland. Judy Watson’s Aboriginal matrilineal family is from Waanyi country in north-west Queensland. The artist’s process evolves by working from site and memory, revealing Indigenous histories, following lines of emotional and physical topography that centre on particular places and moments in time. Spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and video, her practice often draws on archival documents and materials, such as maps, letters and police reports, to unveil institutionalised discrimination against Aboriginal people.

Her work is included in several significant Australian and international collections, including all of Australia’s state institutions, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tokyo National University of Technology, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the British Museum, and MCA/ TATE. Watson is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, and in 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Art History by the University of Queensland.

Julie Gough

Julie Gough is Trawlwoolway through her maternal family, and her traditional homeland is Tebrikunna in far north eastern Lutruwita/Tasmania. She is an artist, curator and writer. Through video, sculpture and installation, she recovers and re-presents the unsettling, subsumed and conflicting histories of Australia, exploring ephemerality, absence and recurrence. She is also a Curator of First People’s Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. 

Lisa Hilli

Lisa Hilli creates and curates exhibitions that shift narratives and art histories with a Melanesian feminine lens. She has specialist knowledge of lens-based practices, the language of textiles and interpretation of museum collections. Lisa’s recent projects include Birds of a Feather highlighting the trailblazing career of Dame Meg Taylor, commissioned by the University of Melbourne and Sydney Road Blaks: Blak Mobility, Settler Surveillance curated with Kimberly Kruger and Savanna Kruger, presented at Counihan Gallery. An Australian National University student, Lisa’s practice led PhD project is focused on the visual representation and agency of Papua Niuginian women through photography and filmmaking.  

Prof. Katerina Teaiwa 

Prof. Katerina Teaiwa is a Pacific Studies scholar, artist and national award winning teacher in the School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University. She is the founder of the Pacific Studies teaching program at ANU and author of Consuming Ocean Island: stories of people and phosphate from Banaba (2015). She has toured her multi-media research based exhibition “Project Banaba”, curated by Yuki Kihara, through Sydney, Napier, Auckland, and soon, Honolulu. She is of Banaban (Tabiang and Tabwewa), I-Kiribati (Tabiteuean) and African American heritage, born and raised in Fiji. 

Kim Kruger

Kim Kruger is a Murroona and South Sea Islander lecturer and researcher with Moondani Balluk at Victoria University. She came up in community development, community radio broadcasting and Indigenous arts strategy and management across film, theatre, visual arts and festivals. Her PhD researches Black Power at the intersection of Aboriginal and South Sea Islander political organisation. Kim is the Co-Chair of Merri-Bek Council’s First Nations Advisory Committee and a member of Creative Victoria’s First Peoples’ Directions Circle, Warrior Woman Lane and Ballerrt Mooroop working groups.

Kimberley Moulton

Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman who grew up in Shepparton country Victoria and is an accomplished Senior Curator and writer. She was previously Senior Curator, First Peoples at Museums Victoria (2016-2023) and is currently a Senior Curator at RISING, Melbourne's international arts festival and also holds the role as Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art for the TATE Modern London. Kimberley works with knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of First Peoples historical collections and contemporary art and her practice works to rethink global art histories and extend what exhibitions and research in and out of institutions can be for First Peoples communities. She is currently a PhD candidate in curatorial practice with the Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab Monash University and will be completing her PhD show as curator for Tarrawarra Biennale 2025.

Dr. Lou Bennett AM

Dr. Lou Bennett AM (Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung) Westpac Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Bennett was a cofounder of the internationally acclaimed music trio Tiddas and was an instrumental force creating the Black Arm Band Company. Bennett was foundational in creating the Black Arm Band Companies Remote Workshop Program delivering music education to remote communities across Australia. Bennett has enormous experience leading community research and workshops. Bennett’s research program titled Sovereign Language Rematriation Through Song Pedagogy focuses on the reinstatement and retrieval of Indigenous languages using Indigenous ways of being, learning and teaching through the practice of song composition, arrangement and notation. 

Assoc. Prof. Natalie Harkin

Assoc. Prof. Natalie Harkin is a Narungga poet living on Kaurna Yarta, South Australia, and a Research Fellow at Flinders University. She engages archival-poetic methods to decolonise state archives with an interest in Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labour histories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy / Memory Story archive innovations for our time. Her words have been installed and projected in mixed-media exhibitions, including creative-arts research collaboration with Unbound Collective. 

Dr. Paola Balla

Dr. Paola Balla is a Wemba Wemba and Gunditjmara woman and acclaimed artist, writer curator and educator. She focuses on Aboriginal women's stories and resistance with a visual practice, encapsulating research, art, memory and narrative realms. Her work centres Aboriginal women’s voices, activism, Sovereignty, and matriarchy and First Nations ways of being, knowing and doing. 

Dr. Rea Saunders

Dr. Rea Saunders, or r e a (they/them) is an Indigenous, experimental interdisciplinary artist / curator / activist / cultural educator and creative thinker from the Gamilaraay / Wailwan / Biripi Nations of NSW. r e a is currently a post-doc research fellow at the University of Queensland. Their practise-led research extends across a thirty-year career and takes its development from critical & contemporary discourses, which investigate intersectionality and positionality through the cultural convergence of Aboriginality: in the visual arts, digital technologies, history, colonialism, identity, the ‘blak’ body, gender and queer politics. 

Dr. Romaine Moreton

Dr. Romaine Moreton is Goenpul Yagerabul Minjungbul Bundjalung South Sea Islander (Tanna Island). Moreton has decades of experience as a practice-based researcher that draws on her work as a nationally and internationally recognised filmmaker, poet, media theorist and educator, drawing on Indigenous philosophies to interrogate western media making production models to centre Indigenous value systems to support Indigenous community media making capacity building and restoration. PI Moreton will engage with the project to explore an exchange of learning, teaching and knowledges between the academy, industry and Indigenous communities to explore how current industrial media-production models may be designed to support community-based media production models that are sustainable, culturally safe, and bespoke.

Prof. Simone Ulalka Tur

Prof. Simone Ulalka Tur  (Yankunytjatjara), Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous (2020-2022) and Associate Professor in Creative Arts, is a recognised national and international leader in Indigenous higher education. Her senior leadership positions include current PVC Indigenous and previous Director of Yunggorendi First Nations Centre at Flinders University (2015-2011); membership of government committees, policy development and board memberships. She brings ARC CI experience from three ARC projects. Her research praxis is informed by Yankunytjatjara songwomen, and theatre/performing arts. Her community engagement includes her role with Yankunytjatjara Native Title group and protecting Country through the anti-nuclear Irati Wanti campaign with Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta. 

Talei Luscia Mangioni 

Talei Luscia Mangioni is a Fijian and Italian woman living and working on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngunawal/Ngambri lands. She is a teacher and is undertaking her PhD in the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University which looks at creative and critical histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific. She is a board member of ICAN Australia, member of Youngsolwara Pacific and is the secretary for the Australian Association for Pacific Studies.