Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell) is Elder-in-Residence with the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work, Aboriginal Field of Study at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is an Indigenous cultural advisor, teacher, and Traditional Practitioner, and has served Indigenous communities for over forty years.

Dr. Raven Sinclair (Ôtiskewâpit) is Cree/Assiniboine/Saulteaux from Gordon’s First Nation. She is a survivor and expert on the Sixties Scoop, and has published extensively on the topic. Her work has been cited in publications such as the Canadian Encyclopedia and she has appeared as an expert on CBC's The National. She is an outspoken critic of the treatment of Indigenous people in the current child welfare system in Canada. She is a professor, filmmaker, author, and facilitator. Dr. Sinclair is currently a full professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina.

Ben Carniol was born in 1937 and immigrated to Canada in 1947, where he became a social worker. He is the author of Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada, is professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a scholar-in-residence at Laurier University’s Indigenous Field of Study program and the recipient of an honorary life membership for distinguished contributions to social work education in Canada by the Canadian Association for Social Work Education. 

Donna Baines is the director and a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of Orchestrating Austerity and co-author of Case Critical. Her research and teaching interests include anti-oppressive theory and practice, paid and unpaid care work and social justice change.