Emeka Anele brings over a decade of experience in academic libraries and has worked as a Learning Designer for more than three years. At Deakin University, Emeka supports the development of Library learning experiences that build capability in various areas of digital literacy for staff, students, and researchers. Emeka believes that true wisdom comes from understanding and weaving knowledge from Indigenous, machine, and Western knowledge systems. Libraries can have a role to play across sectors, serving as a central hub for navigating these diverse ways of knowing.

Craig Patterson is the Library Partner for the Faculties of Arts and Education, and Business and Law at Deakin University. He has worked in the library sector in Australia since 2005, and in academic libraries since 2011. He is driven to ensure that libraries continue to serve as vibrant hubs of knowledge, creativity, and inclusivity for all who seek our resources and services.

Astrid Bovell has worked in copyright since 2003 across the publishing industry, music industry and the tertiary sector.  Astrid is passionate about educating and assisting others to navigate the complexities of copyright.

Jodi Phillips is a Lecturer in Indigenous Health. As an academic with a focus on Indigenous health, respectful collaborative design of curricula and transformative teaching and learning activities in Indigenous health and culturally safe health care, Jodi Phillips provides insights into the application of the Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges (The Indigenous Archives Collective, 2023). 

Dr Evelyn Araluen Corr is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and educator, born and raised in the Dharug and broader Blak Western Sydney community, now living on Wurundjeri land. She is the co-editor of Overland Literary Journal, the Chairperson of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies Board of Directors, and co-convening editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Studies. In 2024 she was appointed Lecturer in Indigenous Arts and Culture at the Wilin Centre, Victorian College of the Arts. Her poetry debut DROPBEAR was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2021, and won the 2022 Stella Prize for Australian Womens’ Literature.

Bridget Caldwell-Bright (Jingili and Mudburra) is a freelance editor based in Melbourne, with experience across structural editing, copyediting and proofreading. She has worked with leading Australian publishers including Hardie Grant Books, Scribe, UQP, Thames and Hudson, Allen & Unwin, and Penguin Random House. Her projects span across academic journals, narrative nonfiction, memoir and illustrated titles. Bridget holds a Master of Writing and Publishing from RMIT.

Dr Eugenia Flynn (Larrakia and Tiwi) is Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University. Her research sits at the intersection between literary studies, creative writing and critical Indigenous studies. Recent publications include ‘A (Sovereign) Body of Work: Australian Indigenous Literary Culture and the Literary Fiction Novel’ in The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel (2023), ‘An Indigenous Grand Narrative Voice: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Indigenous Epistemology’ in Commonwealth Essays and Studies (2022), and ‘Aboriginal Literary History through Self-Determination and Self-Definition’ in Alexis Wright, Carpentaria: The Law of the Land (2021). Outside academia, Eugenia’s essays, short stories, poems and textual works have been published and exhibited widely.

Mikaela Hill

I began working with the Client Services team at Charles Sturt University (CSU) Library in 2019, and later transitioned to the Metadata & Repository team within the Collection Services department. In this role, I focus on enhancing the quality of metadata in the Library’s online catalogue and on addressing cultural sensitivities within the collection. My main contribution to the First Nations Knowledges Collection initiative involves ensuring that all bibliographic records of First Nations-content items “both new and existing” include the appropriate subject headings, language codes and cultural warning statements, as well as configuring the display parameters for these fields. Additionally, I have played a role in relocating physical items, particularly Dreaming titles, to more appropriate areas of the collection. At CSU, we are dedicated to creating safe spaces for everyone, both online and on-site, and I am proud to be involved in this significant initiative.

Lara Keys is the Manager, Teaching and Research Services at Waranara Library, located on Macquarie University’s Wallumattagal Campus. She leads a team of Faculty Librarians supporting the Macquarie Business School and the Faculty of Arts, including the Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies. Lara is an active member of the Macquarie University Mudang-Dali Community of Practice.

Alison Lettin started working at the National Archives of Australia in 2023, after completing her Master of Information Management at RMIT earlier that year. Alison brings a decade of public sector experience to her work at the Archives, having previously worked at the Department of Home Affairs. Career highlights in the archival space include a work and study placement at the British Library, presenting about ‘Finding Families in the National Archives’, and her current role as the Manager of the Public Engagement team. Alison is passionate about the potential of archives to tell us more about ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Jeanine Leane: Meanjin Poetry Editor, co-editor First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1940 1977 to today (forthcoming 2025).

Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic Jeanine Leane’s first poetry volume, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887-1961, won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award, and was republished in the UQP First Nations Classics. Jeanine has published widely in Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative nonfiction. Her awards include two Oodgeroo Noonuccal prizes, two ARC Fellowships, a Red Room Poetry Fellowship, Australia’s richest poetry prize, the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, and the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.

Samantha Faulkner: Member, Meanjin Cultural & Literary Advisory.

Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, from Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and the Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples of Cape York Peninsula. She is the proud author of Life B’long Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra. Her work has been published nationally and internationally. Board roles include ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network, MARION, ACT Writers Centre, and is Treasurer of First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group.