Shannon Brett is a proud Wakka Wakka, Butchulla, Gooreng Gooreng person, an artist, designer, and curator, currently completing a PhD in Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology. Their research on whiteness responds to systemic racism and misogyny in Australia from decolonial and black feminist perspectives. They have worked in numerous arts institutions throughout Australia.

Ruari Elkington is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology and a Chief Investigator in its Digital Media Research Centre. For over a decade, his industry engagement and research has been driven by questions around how screen content connects with discrete audiences in markets increasingly under pressure through creative and commercial tensions. His screen industry experience centred on the acquisition, marketing, and distribution of documentaries, feature films, and innovative digital content to theatrical and online audiences.

r e a Saunders is an artist, curator, activist, and educator from Gamilaraay, Wailwan, and Biripi Nations. They critically engage with colonial archives of bla(c)kness, and draw on a legacy of lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and the impact of intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss. Their doctorate Vaguely Familiar: Haunted Identities, Contested Histories, Indigenous Futures produced a body of work that explored the importance of dadirri (deep listening) on Country.