Aunty Barbara Nicholson is an Elder of the Wadi Wadi people of the Illawarra region. She is project leader of the Ngana Barnagarai (Black Wallaby) project and editor of Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre Volume 8. She is a poet, activist, recipient of numerous awards in Aboriginal Education, a published academic, university lecturer and has taught course work to inmate students at Goulburn Gaol and Junee Correctional Centre. She holds a degree in English Literature (Newcastle) and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (UOW).