Dr. Linda Furuto is from Hau‘ula, O‘ahu, and is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Prior to joining UHM, Dr. Furuto was an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Head of Mathematics and Science at UH West O‘ahu. Dr. Furuto completed her Ph.D. at UCLA, master’s degree at Harvard University, and bachelor’s degree at BYU. Over the years, Dr. Furuto has been a Visiting Scholar of Mathematics at the University of Tokyo, worked in the Boston Public Schools as a research-practitioner in Harvard University’s Inventing the Future project, taught secondary mathematics and music at the Fiji Technical College, conducted research at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and is an education specialist and apprentice navigator with the Polynesian Voyaging Society and traditional voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a. For more info: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lfuruto/

Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, Dubbo NSW Australia. Contact: kowens@csu.edu.au ORCID: 0000-0002-1786-7415

Kay was a secondary health education and mathematics teacher in Sydney and then lived in Papua New Guinea for 15 years teaching mathematics, statistics and computing at the PNG University of Technology and Health Education and Education at Balob Teachers College. While lecturing at Western Sydney and Charles Sturt Universities Australia, she returned to work on ethnomathematics with PNG colleagues about 15 times and had several projects with her regional First Nations Wiradjuri group in Central West, NSW. Her relationships with First Nations people and their issues began during her own university days.

Associate Professor Tony Trinick is an indigenous mathematics educator in Aotearoa/NZ. He has worked in collaboration with the ccommunity to create the specialised mathematics language to enable the teaching of mathematics in the Māori language. He has led a number of indigenous centric curriculum development projects and research projects to revitalise the Indigenous language and knowledge drawing on social justice theories and the work of D’Ambrosio and other researchers in ethnomathematics. Tony has collaborated with mathematics education researchers in Columbia, Peru, Chile, and Norway.