Currently being appointed. Full list with bios and photographs soon.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP

Léo Valls

Founder, Connect Skate Urbanism Festival, France

Festival website: here

Valls website: here

Instagram: @leovallsconnected

Born and based in Bordeaux, Léo is an internationally recognized professional skateboarder and a pioneer of the skaturbanism movement — a vision of skateboarding that goes beyond performance and explores artistic, architectural, and social aspects of urban space.

April Jones

Visual story-teller, filmmaker, journalist, creative and public speaker.

Instagram: @dream_evil_pictures

IMDB: here

April Jones is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, impact journalist, and public speaker whose work blends storytelling, social change, and civic engagement. With two decades in unscripted media, film production, performance-driven marketing, and on-the-ground activism, she elevates underground communities and addresses urgent issues in the creative communities including DIY urbanism, spatial justice, and policy reform.

Recognized by the City of Los Angeles for her philanthropic contributions, Jones brings over a decade of global fieldwork documenting DIY skateparks and community-built third spaces. Her film Concrete Law chronicles a community-led battle to save a skatepark from demolition, laying the groundwork for the first Permission DIY blueprint, a replicable model for sustaining and legalizing community-built skateparks. She is also pursuing undergraduate studies, integrating academic inquiry with hands-on work in storytelling and advocacy.

Dr Harry Meadley

Researcher, Leeds UK

Website: here

Instagram: @harrymeadley

Dr Harry Meadley is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University’s Leeds School of Arts. Through research and socially engaged practice, he develops arts-led approaches to skateboarding to help foster safer, more inclusive spaces. Meadley’s recent PhD, ’The Art of Skating Institutions’, explored how building mutually beneficial relationships between skate communities, arts organisations, and civic institutions can make street skateboarding more accessible to non-traditional skateboarders.

Farran Golding

Writer, Journalist, Founder of Skate Bylines, UK

Skatebylines website: here

Instagram: @farrangolding

Farran Golding, Editor-at-large for Quartersnacks, associate editor at Closer Skateboarding, Founder and editorial director of Skate Bylines, freelance journalist. Website

AUSTRALIAN ADVISORY GROUP

Aaron Christiansen

Skateboarder (Optifreaks team), Landscape Architect Hons. Student, UNSW

Instagram: @ronnychrysler

Aaron Christiansen, skateboarder, skate design consultant and landscape architect hons. candidate, UNSW

Sue McGill

Participation Growth Director, Australian Sports Commission and skateboarder. Bio