Allana completed a Master of Psychology (Forensic) at Bond University in 2014 and is currently employed as the Manager, Clinical Intervention at Ravenhall Correctional Centre. Allana’s research to date has included examination of needs, treatment issues and the barriers and facilitators to effective rehabilitation for offenders with intellectual disability, as well as the examination of gender specific risk factors related to childhood trauma and offending. Allana’s experience includes leadership and direct service delivery with offender populations, including youth and adults, as well as treatment program design, research, and evaluation. Allana has worked with male and female offender populations, across minimum, medium and maximum-security correctional settings, as well as within community settings, across two jurisdictions. Allana is passionate about promoting change within correctional practice, to align with best practice principles of offender management and rehabilitation.

Nathan Akoka is a provisional psychologist, studying the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical and Forensic Psychology) program at Swinburne University. Nathan completed his Bachelor of Psychological Sciences from Deakin University and Graduate Diploma in Professional Psychology from the University of Melbourne. Clinically, he has worked across the private and public Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) sector as an AOD Clinician providing individual counselling, group work and assessments to forensic and voluntary clients. Nathan currently works as a Youth AOD Worker at YSAS, supporting young people aged 12-25 while completing their residential withdrawal stay. Nathan is also employed by YSAS as a Research Assistant, working on Randomised Control Trials related involving young people with substance use disorders, in collaboration with Orygen.