Miriama Bono is a Polynesian artist, independent curator and architect. She was the General Delegate of the International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival (FIFO) from 2010 to 2014, and then became the association’s President in 2015. In 2017, she was appointed Director of the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles and took charge of renovating the museum, and coordinating the international cooperation projects, that led in 2023 to the return to Polynesia of major pieces of Polynesian heritage from European collections. She also co-founded the Tahiti Podcast Label, and hosts Tahitian Talk (conversations) and Parau Tama (Polynesian stories).

Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish scholar, curator, and writer from Galiano Island, BC. She is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, and is the Audain Senior Curatorial Advisor on Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Through her research, she is interested in how peoples move together through space, how public art becomes a site for gathering, and intimacies with the everyday. She uses her practice as a long-distance runner as a methodology for embodied theory and alternative forms of sensing place and, particularly, sensing the ocean.

Mitiana Arbon is a Samoan-Australian curator and creative practitioner, currently serving as Curator for the Pacific at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. He takes an interdisciplinary approach that weaves Pacific material culture, contemporary art, and community collaboration. From 2021 to 2023, he was Pacific Curator at the Übersee-Museum Bremen.

Manuhuia Barcham, PhD (Ngāti Hori & Ngāti Hineiwaerea) is Associate-Professor of Interaction Design at Emily Carr School of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. His latest book "Co-Designing Indigenous Environmental Futures" is scheduled to come out in early 2026.

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) is a scholar, poet, irredentist and māmā. Since 2022 she has held a professorship in English and Critical Indigenous Studies at University of British Columbia. Her publications include Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania (2012), 250 Ways To Start an Essay about Captain Cook (2021), and Always Italicise: how to write while colonised (2022).

Michèle Grenier (She/Her/Elle) is a social-ecological scientist of settler ancestry and recent Master’s graduate with the Ocean Relations Collaborative. Guided by Hereditary Leaders and their Nations along the Pacific Coast of Canada, her research with Coastal Voices explored Indigenous knowledge, art, oral history, and archaeology to inform respectful and resilient human-ocean relationships. She is committed to uplifting Indigenous laws and knowledge systems to shape socially just and ecologically grounded ocean science and policy.