A Yorta Yorta man, Ian a strong personal passion for supporting the Stolen Generations on their healing journey. He has extensive government and community sector experience, particularly at executive and governance levels. Ian has overseen major policy and strategic reforms for government and community organisations. He works with people from a vast array of backgrounds, managing complex and sensitive relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Ian was CEO of a major Aboriginal community organisation from January to August 2018. He is now devoting himself to improving the representation of Aboriginal people on boards and other high level governance, through strategic action, advocacy and mentoring.

Annie Moore is a Wotjobaluk woman from Horsham with links to many Aboriginal communities in Victoria, through family or kindred connection. She was born and raised in Ballarat and is a part of the Stolen Generations. She is passionate about connecting with Stolen Generations to improve healing and sharing life experiences in a culturally appropriate manner. She has worked for many organisations through the years, and currently sits on community advisory boards and runs Bunjils Collective, a not-for-profit social enterprise, that has an independent art gallery, gift shop and Healing space, with the focus on positive community engagement.

Kath Apma Travis Penangke is a proud Imarnte woman of the Arrernte people of Alice Springs, First Nations Historian and a stolen generation survivor. Kath had been removed from her mother at three weeks old and adopted by a second nations family from England in South Australia. In 1985 as a nineteen year old she met her Mother for the first time.  Kath has worked extensively across the education and justice sector with the Victorian First Nations community for thirty years advocating for equitable outcomes for First Nations children, young people and families. She has spent many years examining her ancestral family history and is in the first year of her PhD at Victoria University. Kath’s research seeks to explore ways in which archival stories can be re-claimed and re-authored by First Peoples to address individual, family and community identity and intergenerational healing.

She has been a part of many boards and is currently involved with the Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Neglect, Abuse and Exploitation as a member of the First Nations Peoples’ Strategic Advisory Group. She is also a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, on the Women with Disability Australia Board and the Chairperson of the Koonee Woong-gat Toor-rong (First Nations Community Led Sub Fund of the Australian Community Foundation) in Victoria. Her work is about the social equity across her many communities and providing access to those who are vulnerable and without voices.

Uncle Larry is a Taungurung man from the Kulin Nation and a Stolen Generations person.