Managing Director, Chalk and Behrendt, Lawyers and Consultants.

Mr Jason Behrendt is a Director of Chalk & Behrendt Lawyers, with an extensive career working with Aboriginal peoples across administrative, land rights, native title, and environmental planning and culture and heritage laws. He is also a member of the Indigenous Issues Committee and the Law Society of NSW. In 2019 Jason was awarded the Law Society of NSW’s President’s Medal for his contribution to the development of law and policy affecting Indigenous Australians during the past two decades.

Ms Catherine Trindall has had a distinguished career as an educator and is currently the President of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG). She is also Chair of the Tamworth Aboriginal Medical Service and Life member of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Incorporated.

Industry Professor, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology, Sydney.

Professor Lindon Coombes has worked in Aboriginal Affairs for over 20 years and held leadership positions in Indigenous organisations including as the CEO of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and CEO of Tranby Aboriginal College. He is currently an Industry Professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology, Sydney and the co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW.

Business Enterprise Owner/Operator, Minga Aboriginal Cultural Services.

Ms Patricia Ellis is a respected Brinja-Yuin woman from Moruya and teacher of the Dhurga language, who has been teaching and advising on local Aboriginal culture for over 30 years. She is currently Chairperson of the Eurobodalla Shire Council Aboriginal Advisory Committee and has represented her community in many different capacities over the past three decades. Patricia along with her siblings Kerry Boyenga and Waine Donovan are the proud authors of the about to be published "Dhurga Dictionary and Learner's Grammar – A South East Coast NSW Aboriginal Language.”

Chairman, Gujaga Foundation.

Mr Ray Ingrey is a Dharawal man from the La Perouse Aboriginal community, where he is Deputy Chair of La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, Chair of the La Perouse Aboriginal Community Alliance and Chair of the Gujaga Foundation leading language, culture and research activities in the La Perouse Aboriginal community. Ray has been involved in leading language reclamation activities for nearly 20 years.

Executive Principal of Menindee Central School.

Ms Fiona Kelly is a teacher from Menindee, where she is Executive Principal at Menindee Central School. Fiona sits on a number of education, language and community boards and committees, including the Menindee Community Working Party and the Menindee Local and Western 3 Regional Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG).

Deputy Head of School, The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle.

Raymond Kelly Snr was born and raised in Armidale NSW and is affiliated with several ‘First Peoples Groups’ including the Thangatti and Gumbayngirr peoples. He has lived in Newcastle for the past 40 years and has been actively involved in a broad array of community development programs and has served as consultant at Regional, State and National levels. Ray is a scholar, practitioner and teacher of ‘First Peoples’ language and culture. A driving passion for Ray is the development of research agendas that lead to community determination across all aspect of our cultural revitalisation – ‘For the People, by the People’

Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.

Dr Lynette Riley is a Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi woman from Dubbo and Moree. She has a career spanning more than 40 years in Aboriginal education across primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, and is a senior lecturer at Sydney University’s School of Education and Social Work. Dr Riley is passionate about language and its role in the social and economic empowerment of Aboriginal people.

CEO and founder of Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation.

Mr Clark Webb is a Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man from Coffs Harbour and is a passionate advocate for education and the preservation of language. He is the CEO of Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation, which supports young people to engage with language and culture through education and is the owner/operator of Wajaana Yaam Gumbaynggirr Adventure Tours. Clark is leading the establishment of the Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School, opening in 2022, as the first bilingual School of an Aboriginal language to be established in NSW. Clark was also, until recently, the Chair of the Galambila Aboriginal Health Service.