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Jeanie Bell is a Murri woman from South East Queensland, who identifies with the Yuggera tribe of the Brisbane Valley and the Dulingbara clan group from Fraser Island. She is a community linguist who has been working with the revival and maintenance of Aboriginal languages for many years. She has also been involved in researching the Aboriginal history of South East Queensland and has had her work published in journals and has delivered conference papers.

Since 2003, Bell has been primarily working with authors from the Koorawinga Aboriginal Corporation to publish bilingual children's books in Butchulla language and English.

Angelina Hurley has worked in the field of Indigenous arts and culture. She is the daughter of famous Aboriginal artist Ron Hurley. Hurley has worked for organisations such as the National Association for the Visual Arts, Melbourne Museum, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Queensland Museum, and the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Brisbane.

Kamarra Bell-Wykes is a writer from South East Queensland belonging to the Jagera and Dalingbara people. Kamarra Bell-Wykes wrote the play Chopped Liver, which has toured Australian schools, prisons and Indigenous communities.

Dawn Daylight is an Elder and singer/songwriter belonging to the Turrbal and Jagera/Jagara/Yuggera people of Brisbane, Queensland. Daylight has assisted in the creation of Indigenous youth development programs in Brisbane.

In 2018, Aunty Dawn Daylight was honoured at the Queens Ball Awards. She was presented with both a Lifetime Achievement Award and the inaugural First Nations Leadership and Engagement Award for outstanding work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ Sistergirl and Brotherboy communities in Queensland.

Since the mid 1990s singer, dancer, and Yuggera Elder Shannon Ruska was a member of the internationally acclaimed Nunukul Yuggera Dance Troupe. He was also involved with 'WE CARE', a community-based organisation aimed at providing respite care for aged and disabled Indigenous people.

Source: BrisbaneBlacksMonthly website

'Ade Andrews is a proud Jagera man of Brisbane who has resided in Canberra, ACT, since 2010. A keen sportsman, he is the former captain of the ACT boxing team and in 2012 was the silver medallist in the light heavyweight division at the Australian Amateur Boxing Championships. After a decorated international boxing career, he switched sports to dragon boat racing and became in 2014 the first male paddler from the ACT to be selected on the Australian team that would contest the IDBF World Cup in China. He has a background working in government in both child protection and national security and is passionate about societal issues and the Canberra community.'

Source: Canberra Writers' Festival (http://www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/schedule/detail.aspx?ArtistID=299). (Sighted: 19/10/2017)

Naomi Muggeridge grew up in South East Queensland. She has studied for a Bachelor of Arts and majoring in Sociology and History.

'Ben is a Jagera man from the south of Meanjin (Brisbane). He is connected and obligated to Country around Brewarrina, Mungo, and the Central Coast of NSW.

'He has extensive experience as a high school teacher, a cultural and community educator, and a university lecturer. He is a former national facilitator of the Stronger Smarter Leadership Program and is the director of Ben Wilson Consultancy, a firm specialising in Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural renewal and change.' (https://theconversation.com/profiles/benjamin-wilson-273226)

Faye Carr is an elder of the Yuggera tribe. She helps Indigenous women and men through life's problems every day. Carr was Ipswich Citizen of the Year in 2016.