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Bruce Logan, after a long period overseas, began writing opinion pieces for The New Zealand Herald, The Press, The Otago Daily Times and other newspapers. He has written two novels (as Alexander Logan), Two Women: Two Worlds and The Reluctant Assassin, and several monographs about education and related issues. Living and teaching in New Zealand, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia, his experience in education has been extensive, from teacher of English and Classics to Head of Department and Principal. Bruce was cofounder and first Director of the Maxim Institute.

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Jessica Long is a dynamic speaker with a passion to help others persevere in the face of difficulty, embrace hope, and run their own race. She and her husband, Pete, enjoy boating with family and friends on Table Rock Lake. They live in Branson, Missouri, where they serve on the worship team at Grace Community Assembly.

Chris Long was born in 1991 and grew up two days' hike from the nearest road, at Gorge River on the wild West Coast of New Zealand. After seventeen years living with his family in remote isolation, he left home to attend school in Wanaka. On completing his education, he set off to explore as much of the world as possible, travelling to sixty countries on six continents and taking a variety of jobs, including teaching extreme survival skills in Antarctica, working as a dog musher with huskies in arctic Norway, and crewing on a small yacht sailing through the Northwest Passage. Chris's father, Robert 'Beansprout' Long, and mother, Catherine Stewart, each published best selling memoirs, A Life on Gorge River (2010) and A Wife on Gorge River (2012). This is Chris's first book.

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Dr Terrence M Loomis is an economic anthropologist and independent researcher specialising in the political economy of the oil and gas industry. He was Professor of Development Studies at Waikato University before becoming a senior policy advisor under successive National and Labour governments. His 2017 publication, Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand (Lexington Books) was written while he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Victoria University’s Institute of Governance and Policy Studies. Dr Loomis serves as coordinator of the Fossil Fuels Aotearoa Research Network (FFARN).

Dr Lana Lopesi (MNZM) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon. There she teaches across her research areas of Pacific Islander studies, Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art. She is the author of False Divides (2018- BWB) and Bloody Woman (2021- BWB), which was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race- In Aotearoa New Zealand (2022- BWB) and Pacific Spaces- Translations and Transmutations (2022- Berghahn Books). Lana was Editor-in-Chief for the Creative New Zealand Pacific Art Legacy Project, a digital-first Pacific art history told from the perspective of the artists. Lana is also co-editor of the Marinade- Aotearoa Journal of Moana Art. Previously Lana was Arts Editor Metro Magazine (2020) and at The Pantograph Punch she was Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) and Interim Director (2021), and now is a Pantograph Punch board member. Before that, she was Founding Editor of #500words (2012-2017) and Editor of Design Assembly (2018). Lana received her PhD in 2021 from the Auckland University of Technology, with a thesis titled Moana Cosmopolitan Imaginaries- Toward an Emerging Theory of Moana Art. Previously Lana was part of a global Indigenous Curatorium who first formed to curate the exhibition The Commute at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) with subsequent projects including Layover at Artspace Auckland (2019) followed by Transits and Returns at Vancouver Art Gallery (2019). Lana was honoured in the 2023 New Year's Honours, becoming a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.