Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia is a Sāmoan academic in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland. Committed to the empowerment of Pacific communities, specifically in sexual health and wellbeing, her community and leadership roles include ECART - the New Zealand Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

I am a primary care nurse in rural NSW with a special interest in adolescent and sexual health. I trained and worked in busy London Hospitals as a nurse and later as a midwife. I have worked in general practice for 15 years and was a founder of Teenclinic Australia.

Katrina Marson has been researching the protective power of sex-ed to prevent sexual violence and safeguard sexual wellbeing for a decade. She has been a criminal lawyer since 2013, primarily in the area of family violence and sexual offences. On secondment for two years, Katrina led the implementation of the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission’s criminal justice recommendations in the ACT before returning to the ACT DPP as a senior prosecutor in the Sexual Offences Unit. She undertook a Churchill Fellowship in 2019 researching the implementation of relationships and sexuality education overseas; her findings were published in the report Ignorance is not Innocence. Katrina is the lead researcher of primary prevention at Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy, and is the President of the Relationships and Sexuality Education Alliance ACT. She has been appointed to the federal government’s National Respectful Relationships Education Expert Working Group. Katrina is currently taking a break from criminal practice while she completes her PhD in sex-education. She is a columnist for The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald, and her first book, Legitimate Sexpectations: the power of sex-ed, was published in 2022.

Drawing from her own lived experience as a victim-survivor of sexual assault, Laura is a passionate advocate for empowering and educating other young people on their sexual health and rights. Through her platform as co-host of the podcast Growing Up Clueless as well as her role as Affirmative Consent Project Officer at YACVic, Laura works to inspire others to embrace their voices, challenge societal taboos and foster a safe space for open dialogue in a way that mainstream education didn't do for her.