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Dr Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history, art theory and curatorship in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has previously taught art history at the University of Otago and the Wesleyan University. From 2013-2014, he worked as a Curatorial Fellow in Postwar Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. His articles and essays have appeared in many journals and catalogues, including October, Modernism/ modernity, Art Journal (US), and Oxford Art Journal. He has worked on exhibitions at a number of museums and galleries, including the Chinati Foundation, Yale University Art Gallery and the Pinakothek der Moderne. His work has been supported by the DAAD, the Fulbright Foundation, the Yale Centre for British Art, the Bayerisches Staatsministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, and Creative New Zealand.

Emily Snape is a children's author and illustrator living in London. Her work has appeared online, on television, in shops and even on buses! She loves coffee and notebooks, and has three cheeky children, Leo, Fin and Flo, who keep her on her toes and give her lots of inspiration for stories

Emily Snape is a children's author and illustrator living in London. Her work has appeared online, on television, in shops and even on buses! She loves coffee and notebooks, and has three cheeky children, Leo, Fin and Flo, who keep her on her toes and give her lots of inspiration for stories

NICK SNEDDON is a senior lecturer in animal breeding and genetics at Massey University. His research interests include cattle and sheep breeding as well as bioinformatics of diverse microbial populations. Prior to working at Massey University, he worked for Fonterra in R&D setting up a genomics lab capability. NATALIA MARTIN is a lecturer in animal science at Massey University. Originally from Argentina, she completed an agronomy degree at the University of Buenos Aires, and came to New Zealand to work in agriculture. She worked in technical and field research positions at the Massey University’s sheep, beef and dairy farms for several years, completing a PhD evaluating the finishing performance of beef sires in a dairy-beef system. Her research interests include farm animal growth and meat quality.

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Zech Soakai (Poutasi, Upolu, Samoa / Pangai, Ha’apai, Tonga) is a proud tusitala, kaiako, village builder and warrior raiser with ten years’ experience accumulated in the classrooms of South Auckland as a facilitator, educator and more recently Kaiārahi (Dean). He is also a spoken word poet and interdisciplinary artist who, since leaving the classroom full-time, is now broadly entrenched in the work of social change through storytelling.