Decolonial Possibilities: People

Katerina is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist and award winning teacher of Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American heritage born and raised in Fiji.

Janelle is a palaeoecologist with experience working in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Australia.

Talei Luscia Mangioni is a Pacific Studies PhD candidate in the Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University.

Uncle Wally Bell is a Ngunnawal Traditional Custodian.

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia who has worked in the Indigenous higher education sector since 1995.

Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning woman from the Nullarbor and Far West Coast of South Australia, she lives and works on Kaurna country, Tarndanyangga/ Adelaide.

Simone Ulalka Tur is from the Yankunytjatjara community, north-west South Australia and resides in Adelaide. Simone has undertaken leadership roles within higher education.

Futuru Tsai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Cultural Affairs, Institute of Austronesian Studies, National Taitung University.

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki) writes and teaches at the intersections of Indigenous, Pacific, literary and cultural studies.

Faye Rosas Blanch is of Yidiniji/Mbarbaram descent from the Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland.

Maeve Powell is a Ngiyampaa woman who grew up in Sydney and Canberra with links to western New South Wales. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Economics from ANU in 2014.

Leah is a Torres Strait Islander with extensive family links to the Mer, Erub, Badu and Mabuiag islands.

Born in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, Lisa is a descendent of the Tolai / Gunantuna people. She is a contemporary artist living in Narrm (Melbourne).

Originally from Waimea, Hawaiʻi, Emalani Case grew up in a small town immersed in the stories and histories of her place.

Akil Ahamat is a Sydney-based Sri Lankan Malay arts worker and interdisciplinary artist working in sound, video and installation.

Bianca Hennessy is a white settler doctorate and alumna of CHL Pacific Studies, writing about the decolonising intellectual genealogy of the academic community.

Rob Williams, a descendant of the Ngambri Ngunnawal peoples, is passionate about the preservation of Indigenous heritage and traces this back to going with his father, an Aboriginal Elder and Tradi

Jen is a descendant of the Gourmjanyuk clan of the Wemba Wamba nation, and the Theddora Mittung people of the Dhudhuroa nation through her great grandparents, who are apical ancestors of these two

Ray is an ARC DECRA fellow whose central interest lies in understanding how evolutionary processes have shaped the remarkable biological diversity observed in humans and other species.

Jenny is a Nalik-speaking woman from the Moxokamade babanga (hornbill) clan of Madina village, northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

Charles James Tekarawa Radclyffe is a Solomon Islander of I-Kiribati and British descent.