Andrew Dowding is a Ngarluma man from Roebourne in the Pilbara region. He has a Graduate Diploma in Policy and Applied Social Research from Macquarie University and was an intern at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in 2007–8. He is a Director of Ngarluma Tharndu Karrungu Maya Ltd and has worked as an Indigenous Anthropologist in the heritage consulting industry. His latest project was Ngarluma Ngurra: Aboriginal Culture on the map. This exhibition (with FORM) displays the cultural mapping work he has done with the Ngarluma Traditional Owners, using Google Earth Outreach. 

After training as a research psychologist at The University of Western Australia and lecturing in a number of Australian universities, Dr Lawrence entered politics in 1986, serving at both state and federal levels for 21 years. She was at various times WA Minister for Education and Aboriginal affairs and was the first woman Premier and Treasurer of a state government.  She shifted to federal politics in 1994 when she was elected as the Member for Fremantle and was appointed Minister for Health and Human Services and Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women. She has held various portfolios in Opposition, including Indigenous Affairs, Environment, Industry and Innovation and was elected national President of the Labor Party in 2004. She retired from politics in 2007. She is Now Professor Emerita in the School of Psychological Science  at the University of Western Australia. From 2010-2015 she was Chair of the Australian Heritage Council and is currently President of the Conservation Council of WA.

Dr Vanessa Russ is a Ngarinyin /Gija woman from the Kimberley. She was the first Aboriginal director of the Berndt Museum. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the College of Fine Arts (Art + Design) UNSW before returning to Western Australian to pursue a PhD in Fine Arts from UWA 2013. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2014 to investigate the effects of national identity in mainstream art museums on Indigenous populations. For this she travelled across the United States of America, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Dr John Stanton was the Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology 1995–2013, and was its Founding Curator. He retired to continue his collections-based research. John Stanton has extensive experience and involvement in the area of Aboriginal arts, which he has developed primarily since his appointment in 1978 as Curator of the Anthropology Research Museum. His anthropological research has focused on the Western Desert; he also has ongoing research programs in the northwest and the southwest of the Western Australia. Many of these projects have focused on assisting Aboriginal communities to establish local Keeping Places and cultural centres.