Dr Judy Tang OAM is a clinical neuropsychologist with more than a decade of clinical and academic experience in brain health, cognitive assessment, and complex mental health presentations. She has held leadership roles including Victorian Multicultural Commissioner and Board Director at the Victorian Pride Centre, championing equity and inclusion across health and community settings. Nationally recognised for her advocacy, she works at the intersection of mental health, ageing, disability, multiculturalism, LGBTIQA+ communities, and neurodiversity to drive systemic change.

Dr Liz Vuletich is a clinical neuropsychologist raised on Mparntwe (Alice Springs), where early experiences in central and western desert regions fostered deep respect for Aboriginal knowledges and the importance of deep listening. Endorsed in Clinical Neuropsychology, she holds a Masters and PhD from the University of Western Australia and has worked across public and private sectors since 2006, including senior leadership, university lecturing, board approved supervision and private practice. Since 2009, her work has focused on forensic and medicolegal practice, particularly with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, emphasising culturally responsive, equity-focused, and community-engaged care, especially within the Expert witness role.

Jody Kamminga is a clinical neuropsychologist with over a decade of experience in public health services across brain injury, mental health, and alcohol and other drug services in New South Wales. She is an AHPRA Board Approved Supervisor for general psychologists and neuropsychology registrars. Her clinical interests focus on developing equitable neuropsychology services, with an emerging emphasis on decolonising practice and privileging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Jody is undertaking a PhD on decolonising neuropsychological practice under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governance, while providing clinical consultation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people intersecting with the justice system and working as a research fellow with the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP).

Mary is a Yuin Budawang woman, Clinical Psychologist and Ahpra Board Approved Supervisor. She has a private psychology, supervision and consultancy practice specialising in Indigenous Australian psychology and culturally responsive therapeutic practice, emotional dysregulation, performing arts psychology, PTSD and Complex Trauma. Mary has been a psychotherapist for 30 years and a psychologist for 12, with a long and varied history in community work, adult education and mental health services. She lectures in Indigenous Australian psychology as well as conducting training workshops and programs for journalists, creatives, and psychologists and other mental health and social services professionals. Mary is a Professional Practice Fellow of the University of Western Australia and a Director of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA). She is a co-author of the Listening More suite of resources for providing culturally responsive supervision for psychologists, and of a chapter, “wangii wadhan biyay” – bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous psychologies together within a decolonising framework; another on “Deep Yarning”, an Indigenous psychotherapeutic model; and is co-developer of the 6Ps x 8 domains formulation tool for working with Indigenous Australians.

With over 45 years of direct engagement across Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Australian South Sea Islander communities, Joe Sproats exceptional depth, continuity, and cultural authority to his work. For twelve years, he delivered immersive, live-in training to more than 1,000 Indigenous students through his training centre and resort in Ingham and his home in Charters Towers. This model of engagement extended well beyond conventional service delivery, embedding long-term relationship building, cultural exchange, and practical life development. Joe has worked extensively across remote and regional Queensland, including Mornington Island, Woorabinda, Mount Isa, Yarrabah, and Townsville. He currently serves as Chairperson, Ngarigo Tribal Governing Council Inc; Chairperson, Ngarigo Nation Indigenous Corporation Inc; President, One Land One Spirit Australia; Director, Australian South Sea Islander Port Jackson Inc; Director, Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association and Expert Advisor, Queensland First Nations Tourism Council. These roles reflect his standing as both a governance leader and a recognised Elder within community. He has also held positions as Adjunct Lecturer at James Cook University Medical School and Tribunal Member with the Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal. His consultancy work spans governance, strategic planning, language maintenance, housing, arts, and community development. He currently works as a Contract Psychologist with One Land One Spirit Australia and Wakai Waian Healing Service (Rockhampton). His program Choices for Change received a Highly Commended award at the 2015 Queensland Reconciliation Awards.

Matthew Craig (Bundjalung) born on Darkinjung/Guringai Country, where he raises his two daughters. Entering psychology later in life, he brings leadership, governance and strategy to Aboriginal mental health, suicide prevention, holistic wellbeing, and community-led systems reform, with deep accountability to mob. He is Managing Director of NeuroKind and MAC & Co., Chairperson of Bugalwan Indigenous Corporation, a Director of AIPA, recipient of the Westerman Jilya Indigenous Psychology Scholarship, and a speaker across national and international forums. Matthew’s positionality is central to his work. Informed by lived experience of complex trauma, mental ill-health, suicidality and in-patient care; he works from a relational, culturally responsive and decolonising approach to healing grounded in connection, safety, self-determination, and continuous reflexivity. Nearing completion of his Master of Clinical Neuropsychology, he is committed to strengthening Aboriginal representation in psychology and neuropsychology, and to reshaping professions that too often remain culturally unsafe for our people.