Lorena Allam is descended from the Gamilaraay and Yawalaraay nations of north-west NSW. She has been the Guardian's Indigenous affairs editor since 2018, following a long career as an ABC journalist. She also worked with the Australian Human Rights Commission on its landmark report about the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Bringing Them Home, and with the National Film and Sound Archive, where she led the indigenous collection. She has been awarded the Barbara Dunstan Churchill Fellowship to investigate the relationship between Indigenous truth-telling processes and the media.

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