Dr. Danya Carroll, is Diné (Navajo) and White Mountain Apache from the Southwestern United States. She has a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Arizona and a Master of Public Health from the Colorado School of Public Health. She recently graduated from the University of North Dakota with a PhD in Indigenous Health. Dr. Carroll has worked in various capacities to improve overall Indigenous health including within the Tribal, nonprofit and research sectors in the US. Her public health work and practice has evolved around building culturally relevant models and practices to improve healthy and traditional foods access in American Indian communities. Dr. Carroll’s current research includes engagement with Indigenous communities in Canada to support the mobilization and protection of traditional ecological knowledges amidst the climate crisis. Dr. Carroll is currently a Postdoctoral Associate working with Dr. Nicole Redvers at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in Canada. 

George is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head Department of Pacific Affairs, and the Director of the Pacific Institute, at The Australian National University. His research explores the interplay of international politics and climate change (diplomacy, negotiations, security, finance, democracy, gender and indigenous knowledge), through the influence and power of small island states (foreign policy, non-western and Oceanic Diplomacy), Pacific regionalism and geopolitics, indigenous knowledge and philosophy. He teaches and supervises research in international relations, security, diplomatic and Pacific studies; and provides advice to Pacific regional organisations and countries in climate, ocean and sustainable development multilateral forums. He is also a Co-Director for RESI (Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative) a network of Small Islands Developing States researchers. George’s research and teaching interests are influenced by his work experience and education in the Pacific, and grounded by his Samoan, Tuvaluan, i-Kiribati, Chinese and British heritage and upbringing. He serves his communities and villages in Samoa, and holds high chief title of Salā from Lēauva’a.

Elvira Rumkabu is a lecturer of international relations at Cenderawasih University based in Jayapura, Papua. She completed her Master's Degree at the Australian National University. Her areas of expertise are conflict resolution, peace studies, and Papuan politics. Elvira is a member of the Academics Forum for Papua Peace (FAPD), a forum established by Indonesian lecturers to initiate conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Papua. She is actively involved in the Peaceful Papua Lobbying Team, initiated by the Democratic Alliance for Papua (ALDP). Elvira has written about issues relating to the conflict in Papua in a number of publications. She has also spoken about conflict resolution in Papua, racism and marginalisation, and women, peace and security in national and international forums.

Tafue M Lusama is Climate Change Project Officer for the climate change unit of the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, where he also heads the Institute for Climate Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) within PTC. His passion is on climate justice, and this, he believes, can only be achieved through a total transformation in our mindset, and the inclusion of indigenous climate knowledge in the climate narrative and policies. He completed his doctoral studies in 2021 in which he redefined the theology of God from a Tuvaluan indigenous perspective in relation to climate change and the suffering that the vulnerable communities in the region are facing.  He is the former General Secretary of the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu (Tuvalu Christian Church) and Program secretary for Peace and Justice within his national church, which includes dealing with the issue of climate change. He was instrumental in establishing the Tuvalu Climate Action Network (TuCAN), and advocating for the voiceless on climate justice regionally, and globally.