Debbie Kilroy OAM is one of Australia’s leading advocates for criminalised women and children. She is the founder and CEO of Sisters Inside, an independent community organisation that advocates for the human rights of women and girls in the criminal legal system. In 2003, Kilroy was awarded the OAM for services to the community for working with women in prison, and in 2004, was awarded the National Human Rights Medal. In 2007, she became the first person with serious convictions to be admitted by the Supreme Court of Queensland to practice law.

Boneta-Marie Mabo is a proud Meriam/Munbarra artist and prison abolitionist. Walking in the footsteps of her grandfather, the late Eddie Koiki Mabo, she is a passionate activist. In 2017, she collaborated with the Royal Australian Mint in the design of a circulating commemorative 50c coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum and the 25th anniversary of the High Court Mabo decision. In 2016, she was the inaugural artist-in-residence for the State Library of Queensland’s kuril dhagun Indigenous centre. In 2014, she won the People’s Choice award in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Art Award. Mabo has been Youth Programs Manager at Sisters Inside since 2014.

Ruby Wharton is a Gamilaraay Kooma Yinnar woman, leading community organiser, and passionate freedom fighter. An organiser within group Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and advocate with Sisters Inside, Wharton is a strong advocate for change and works alongside community members, collectives, organisations, and others in pursuit of community care.