Priscilla Atkins is Eastern Arrernte from Central Australia and mother of 10 children and grandmother to 17 grandchildren.

Priscilla is the CEO of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), the largest legal service in the Northern Territory, providing high-quality and culturally appropriate legal aid services for Indigenous people. She is fully engaged in pursuing the rights of Indigenous people through law and policy reform, and has a long history of actively promoting Indigenous culture, language, dance and music worldwide.

Previously, Cilla was the CEO of the CAAMA Group, the largest Indigenous owned and operated multimedia organisation in Australia, managing their commercial enterprises through radio broadcasting, remote Indigenous broadcasting, independent music label, film and television production company, shops and television broadcasting.

Cilla also previously held a position on the NT Indigenous Affairs Advisory Council, was a Board Director on Indigenous Business Australia, Chairperson of the Indigenous Australian Communications Association, Board Director of Imparja Television, National Indigenous Television Service and Indigenous Screen Australia.

She holds a Master of Arts in Producing, and worked with Owen Cole and Rachel Perkins in setting up NITV, the first Indigenous television station, worked with the Australian Indigenous Communications Association in establishing the National Indigenous Television Service, and was the Executive Producer and creator of the first Indigenous children’s television series, Double Trouble.

Highly regarded across various fields, Cilla was included in the 2008-2015 edition of Who’s Who of Australian Women, and has been awarded an array of accolades including: Northern Territory Businesswoman of the Year (2011) Community and Government Sector, Certificate of Recognition in Aboriginal Leadership from the Department of Attorney General and Justice, Northern Territory Correctional Services, Northern Territory award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership in 2020 and was a state finalist for the Australian Leader & Excellence Award. Cilla was also featured in a book in 2014 called "The Climb" written by Geraldine Doogue on the 14 top women leaders in Australia.

Dr. Hannah McGlade is a Noongar human rights lawyer from Perth, Western Australia. 

Hannah is dedicated to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through law and policy reform, and has strong expertise across justice issues. She worked for ATSIC on Indigenous rights and Treaty, and her work has included policy and law reform, advocacy and human rights litigation, including most recently supporting cases challenging the treatment of Aboriginal prisoners. 

Admitted to the WA Supreme Court in 1996, Hannah has worked in the community legal sector and was formerly the CEO of Aboriginal Family Law Services. 

Hannah holds a LLB, LLM (International Human Rights Law) and Ph.D from Murdoch and Curtin University, and has has been with Curtin University since 2016 as an Associate Professor, working on the Deathscapes research project, and researching Aboriginal prisoner treatment and deaths in custody, disability discrimination, violence against  women, child removals, healing and cultural safety in health care.  

A member of the Noongar Family Safety and Wellbeing Council (from 2017 - 2021), she has campaigned to reform the WA child protection bill to include Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making process in law.

Appointed the Senior Indigenous Fellow of the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights in 2016, Dr. McGlade is currently a member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, having taken part in many UN reviews and processes and worked with peak bodies including SNAICC for children’s rights.