Dame Susan Devoy DNZM, CBE, Race Relations Commissioner. Dame Susan is a member and former chair of the Halberg Trust, patron of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of New Zealand and other charities. Since her appointment in April 2013 Dame Susan has taken a high profile role in encouraging New Zealanders to take personal responsibility for race relations and to stand up for victims of racial abuse.

Andrew Judd was elected as a Councillor to New Plymouth District Council in 2007, and elected Mayor in 2013. Andrew identifies as a recovering racist, having undertaken a journey of self-education and personal realisation about New Zealand history and race issues during his term as Mayor. Andrew recently led a three-day hikoi from New Plymouth to Parihaka in an expression of Māori and Pākehā working together for a better New Zealand.

Dominic is from the Te Rarawa and Ngati Kahu iwi. Dominic is an Associate Professor in political science and Associate Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University. He is widely published in political science, education and public theology. Dominic is also the author of 50 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and reports, including commissioned work for the International Labour Organisation and New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Professor Yin Paradies is Chair of Race Relations, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Deputy Director (research) at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Drawing from his perspective as an Aboriginal-Anglo-Asian Australian, he conducts interdisciplinary research on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice.

Derek M. Griffith, PhD is a leading social scientist focused on social influences on men’s health and racial and ethnic health disparities. Dr. Griffith is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt, and he is the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr Heather Came is a seventh generation Pakeha New Zealander. She has worked for nearly 25 years in health promotion and has a long involvement in social justice activism of assorted denominations. Heather is a founding member of STIR: Stop Institutional Racism, a fellow of the Health Promotion Forum, and an active member of Tamaki Tiriti Workers. She is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Teaching and Learning, School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology.

Grant is from the Tai Tokerau region and has whakapapa connections to the Iwi of Ngapuhi, Ngati Wai and Te Rarawa. He has an extensive background in Maori development work with a particular focus on Maori leadership and public health. At the present time, Grant has roles as Acting Director Maori Health for the Waikato District Health Board, and Manager (Regional Economic Development) Northland, for the Ministry of Primary Industries. Along with Dr Heather Came, Grant is the Co-Chair of STIR.

Jenny Rankine hails from Adelaide in Australia but has lived in Aotearoa for more than half her life, and identifies as Pākehā. She has worked unpaid as a feminist activist and in paid work as a print journalist, editor and social researcher. She is now wrestling with a PhD about how to intervene in everyday online racism against Māori.