Dr Agli Zavros-Orr is an academic, researcher and consultant. Agli is currently working at Federation University Australia, teaching in the areas of Inclusive Education at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In their work they advocate for an ‘ethic of just-care’, anti-bias curriculum and pedagogical approaches – which they have written about in Storying Social Movement/s. Agli is the founder of Diversitywise Educational Services (diversitywise.com.au/) and undertakes advocacy and activist roles. Agli has worked extensively with the Intersex Human Rights movement in Australia. Agli is an invited Advisory Board Member for the Interconnect Heath Research project (interconnect.org.au/). Agli has been a speaker and a member of various panels over the years - sharing lived experience, their knowledge and insights on what is required for creating inclusive practices for people born with innate variation in sex characteristics. They have collaborated on a number of different writing projects seeking to raise awareness and inform practices. A notable publication to this end is: Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations.

Mani B Mitchell, Pakeha, change agent, non binary, intersex and queer identifying person. Born in the shadows of the second world war, my parents, loving, remote rural conservative people were poorly equipped to deal with the reality my birth brought to their life. I did not deal with the trauma of my childhood until my 40’s - I had trained as an educator, gone onto local government emergency management, specialized in critical incident stress management, management and then psychotherapy. Once I started to ‘deal’ with my own birth realty, my own trauma, suicidal ideation, I made the decision - I could not change the past - I could, I concluded assist with changing the future. So I have used all my training, my lived experience, aroha, stubbornness, my pain, sadness to bring awareness - visibility of intersex realities and awareness to the world. Find people to collaborate with, work beside - inspire, by working locally, nationally and internationally. My dream is, we will as a global collective, achieve critical mass - change the model. That trauma, stigma, shame and secrecy will be relegated to history as a sad artifact of the past. That intersex persons will be free to be the magnificent humans we are all entitled to be.

Professor Elizabeth Kerekere  (she/her/ia) Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Oneone, Te Āitanga a Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Co. Clare, Co. Tipperary    Elizabeth is Founder/Chair of Tīwhanawhana Trust, Chair of Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa and Adjunct Professor, School of Health, Te Herenga Waka University of Victoria. Several research projects use her Te Whare Takatāpui framework of health and well-being for takatāpui, Rainbow people and their whānau. It is currently being applied to the New Zealand health system for trans perinatal care and intersex health and well-being.