Sally Chance is a dance practitioner and Acorn dance worker. For the past fifteen years her work has been dedicated to the cultural, social and emotional lives of children aged three years and younger. Sally’s work with the Acorn program uses dance play to support the critical first relationship between mother and baby. Lee Collins is a social worker and Acorn’s Family Support Practitioner. She spent fifteen years with Anglicare South Australia working in a range of programs, including Staying Attached, the Acorn program and Sacred Little Ones, Acorn’s sister group dedicated to First Nations families.

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Dr Zali Yager is an internationally recognised expert in the body image space, known for figuring out ‘what works’ to help people feel better about their bodies. Zali is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, with a background in health and physical education. She has been involved in the development of almost every evidence-based body image school program around the world, and a consultant on two EU-funded Erasmus+ projects – Body Confident Mums and Body Confident Sport. In 2021, Zali was awarded one of 10 Westpac Social Change Fellowships. She received a Creswick Fellowship to spend time at Harvard and Northeastern University in 2018, and a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2011 to complete her postdoctoral work at the Centre for Appearance Research in the UK. Zali co-authored the Embrace Kids book with Taryn Brumfitt from the Body Image Movement, and was the body image expert advisor on the EMBRACE KIDS film. She is also a Mum of 3 (10, 8, 8) and ridiculously passionate and driven by the desire to create a safer body image environment for the next generation.

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