Clara believes storytelling and community building are at the heart of movements. She has worked using documentary as a tool for change as Clara as an Impact Producer on films such as Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation, Backtrack Boys, Incarceration Nation and Delikado. Previously, Clara worked as a policy and legislation advisor in NSW Parliament. In 2019, Clara co-authored the non-fiction book, Quitting Plastic. She is the Impact and Education Director at Documentary Australia

Julie Macken has worked in the field of communications and advocacy for over thirty years. As a senior feature writer with The Australian Financial Review for over a decade she initiated the successful Power Edition of the AFR Magazine, covered investigations into Australia’s asylum seeker policy, climate change, forestry practices and the early attempts to develop a nuclear energy industry in Australia. From there she worked with federal Labor, a number of unions, ActionAid and Greenpeace Australia Pacific, before working as head of Communications for the historically successful 2015 Greens NSW state election campaign. She is now doing a PhD at Western Sydney University, volunteering with the RFS and working with the Justice and Peace Office of the Sydney Archdiocese.

Rachael Jacobs is a, academic, a community activist, advocate and artist living on Gadigal land. She is a lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Western Sydney University, a former secondary teacher (Dance, Drama and Music). She conducts research in arts and creativity education that works towards social, racial and climate justice. Rachael has facilitated arts projects in community settings all over Australia, including in refugee communities, in prisons and in women’s refuges.

She is a freelance writer, aerial arts instructor, South Asian dancer and choreographer. She was a founding member of the community activism group, Teachers for Refugees and runs her own intercultural dance company. She is on the boards of several community organisations including Wide Eyed Wonder and Sweltering Cities. Rachael is politically engaged with her involvement in politics spanning over three decades.

Chris is a founder, campaign strategist, advocate, and father of two. He has built his career at the intersections of advocacy strategy, media production and cultural anthropology, working with communities to leverage culture and storytelling to change behaviour and systems. Through participatory strategies that enable vulnerable and marginalised communities to self-advocate and design their own progress, Chris has co-designed and implemented issue-driven programs and campaigns across a number of continents and issue areas. He is executive director and co-founder of Reset Australia, a tech policy think tank and research organisation that tackles digital threats to democracy; as well as Senior Campaign Director and Head of APAC at Purpose, a strategic consultancy and social impact agency that partners with leading organisations, philanthropies and businesses across the globe.

Dr. Bronwyn Lay is an advocate and strategist with 20 years domestic and international experience specialising in access to climate and ecological justice. She is committed to realising healthy relationships between social and ecological communities and ensuring our laws and governance structures embed climate justice principles. Currently working as the Strategic Lead of the Climate Justice Support Unit at the Federation of Community Legal Centres her career includes legal practice, advisor and consultant but she also has expertise in community engagement and coalition building. Previously Bronwyn completed a PhD on legal solutions to reduce climate harm in communities and has published extensively on this subject.