- Kaye Price, University of Sydney
Kaye Price AM is an Aboriginal woman from Tasmania who has co-authored material for use in teaching Aboriginal Studies and Torres Strait Islander Studies across the education spectrum. She has extensive experience in the areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia, having lectured at the University of Canberra, Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Southern Queensland, and in culturally responsive curriculum with 40 Indigenous groups in the Philippines. She is Elder in Residence with the Young Indigenous Women's STEM Academy and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, was Australia's NAIDOC Scholar of the Year in 2004, 2006 ACT NAIDOC Scholar of the Year and ACT Senior Australian of the Year in 2007. Kaye was also named an Education Warrior in 2008. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for significant service to education, particularly through Indigenous teaching initiatives.
- Jessa Rogers, University of Melbourne
Jessa Rogers GAICD MAIATSIS is a Wiradjuri researcher, educator and board director with over fifteen years' teaching experience in schools and tertiary education. She is an associate professor of Indigenous education at the University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow (DE230100140). Her research focuses on Indigenous research methods and methodologies, and Indigenous peoples' experiences of education. Her cultural connections are to the Wiradjuri nation and, through marriage, her whanau connections are to Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato-Tainui in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Lindsay McCabe, Western Sydney University
Lindsay McCabe is a palawa woman who grew up on Dharug Country in Western Sydney. In 2019, she was awarded the Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Prize for Academic Excellence and she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2025. Lindsay is an associate lecturer in criminology in Western Sydney University's School of Social Sciences. Her research background is in critical analysis of the experiences of Aboriginal families in New South Wales who have become engaged with the coronial system through the death of a loved one. She is a staunch advocate for Aboriginal families who are faced with the bureaucracy of the coronial system.