Sarah Barron combines her passion for art, education and engaging with audiences in her role of Public Programs Officer at QUT Art Museum and William Robinson Gallery in Brisbane, where she has worked since 2015. Barron is also a longstanding member of the Flying Arts Alliance Inc. Board and curator with the Art Series Hotels in Brisbane, The Johnson and The Fantauzzo. She holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours), majoring in Art and Design History, from QUT. She has previously worked in programming, exhibition and administration roles at Flying Arts, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Logan Art Gallery and FireWorks Gallery.

Wendy is passionate about social justice, equity and human rights. Her career has spanned law, music (professional violist), marketing, business development and fundraising for the tertiary education, environment and conservation, arts, health and medical research and social welfare sectors.

Wendy’s voluntary leadership positions include: Co-Chair, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Australia; Board Chair of InLife Independent Living Ltd; Chair and Trustee of the National Trust of Australia Victoria Foundation; Trustee of National Trust of Australia Victoria; Member of the Council of MiVote; Director of Summer Housing Ltd and Board Director of Kokoda Track Foundation.  Wendy serves on the HRW International Disability Rights Advisory Council and is a founding member of the Australian Charity Law Association and the Melbourne Women’s Fund.

Through Wendy Brooks & Partners, Wendy provides strategic fundraising services and a range of administrative services to the community sector.

Kasia is currently a Director with KPMG providing People & Change advisory services to clients in Brisbane. She is an experienced human capital and organisational development leader supporting businesses and major projects with change management, strategic ER/HR, team alignment and culture, leadership development and coaching, facilitation and strategic consulting. Kasia has over 20 years experience in people and change consulting as well as line HR/OD management with Deloitte in Australia and Europe. She has held lead roles in Daimler Chrysler global transformation, alignment and capability development programs. More recently, she led alignment and change programs as the Major Project Team Development Manager at SKM and Organisational / Capability Development Manager with Thiess Australian Mining for 11 mining projects across regional Australia including the Bowen Basin in QLD. Previously, Kasia established and ran a successful international business focused on culture transformation, leadership, capability development, and internal communications. She has delivered large organisational design, change, alignment and development programs to a broad portfolio of clients in Australia, Europe and South Africa. These comprise of ‘blue chip’ multinational corporations such as Rio Tinto, Universities, public sector, and many organisations in the energy, mining and resources, engineering R&D, financial services, automotive, entertainment and retail industries. Kasia holds a Masters degree in Commerce (Management) and is a Registered Psychologist focusing on people, culture, alignment and transformation projects in organisations seeking to improve effectiveness and develop individual, team and business capability. 

Kathy Schaefer is an award winning, high performing non-executive director and former senior government executive with a successful track record driving strategy, building strong corporate governance, engaging with stakeholders and developing the talent capability of workforces. She leverages her relational style to drive complex change in regionally dispersed organisations. Kathy has worked across government portfolio areas of economic and industry development, infrastructure and major projects delivery, education, training and employment, land use planning and local government. She understands how governments work and builds connectivity between industry, government and community to shape and deliver better outcomes. Her personal commitment to service and making a difference has shaped her leadership success.

Michelle Tuahine is a Gangulu/Ngāti Kahungunu woman with a background in journalism. She is a descendant of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland, and a member of the Brisbane Murri community.

Born in Brisbane, Michelle became interested in a career in the industry after seeing the portrayal of her community in the media in the lead up to the 1982 Commonwealth Games. The then Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen had banned street protests by declaring Queensland a ‘State of Emergency’. It became the catalyst for a career in news and current affairs reporting, becoming a cadet journalist with ABC TV News and Current Affairs in 1990, and later working with the ABC’s Indigenous Programs Unit on its award-winning series ‘Blackout’. Michelle has also worked with National Indigenous Television (NITV) and National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS News).

Michelle is currently assisting her family in their aspirations for native title, as well as helping plan, manage and protect cultural heritage on country.

In 2012, Michelle was appointed to the Indigenous Advisory Group (IAG) for Brisbane Festival – Queensland’s largest cultural event. Michelle helped develop the Festival’s ‘Statement of Intent’ with a vision for healing and meaningful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities. In 2018, Michelle continued sharing her knowledge and experience with Brisbane Festival staff, as well as taking part in Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies with the Festival’s visiting international artists.

Dr Margaret Baguley is an associate professor in arts education, curriculum and pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). She is the academic relationship champion for USQ in fostering and promoting the 20+ year partnership with Flying Arts. Dr Baguley is a practising artist and arts educator with an extensive teaching background in the education sector. Her contribution to quality teaching and research has been recognised through a series of awards including a national citation for outstanding contribution to student learning (ALTC, 2007) in addition to numerous university awards. Dr Baguley is also the President of Art Education Australia (AEA), the peak body for visual arts education in Australia and a representative member for visual arts education on the National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) group. She was previously the elected World Councillor for the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) presenting the South East Asia Pacific region (2014-2017); and the Chair of the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference organising the conferences for Brisbane, 2014 (QUT); Fremantle, 2015 (The University of Notre Dame); and Melbourne (MCG), 2016.

As a practising artist Dr Baguley has had 10 solo exhibitions and 49 group exhibitions with forty three of these being invitational. She has received a number of significant awards throughout her career including the Australia Council’s New Media Residency to Banff, Canada, the Martin Hanson Memorial Art award and the National Dame Mary Durack Outback Award. Her work is held in a number of collections including the Bundanon Trust Art Collection, the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery and the Wesley Hospital Art Collection. She has undertaken residencies at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Property, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and Manning Clark House. Dr Baguley has been a recipient of grants from the Ian Potter Foundation, Craft Queensland, Pat Corrigan, Arts Queensland and her work has been selected to tour regional Queensland through the Queensland Arts Council. Dr Baguley’s work is currently on tour as part of the Australia Council for the Arts funded exhibition ‘Dark Rituals, Magical Relics’ (2018-2019). She has also been awarded a 2019-2020 Princeton University Library Research Grant with Dr Martin Kerby to further her exploration of the fifty-four year collaboration between PL Travers, the writer of the Mary Poppins series of books, and the artist Mary Shepard.