Naba is a medical doctor, practicing mostly Emergency Medicine, and a management consultant at Bain & Company. She co-founded Happy Brain Education, a charity which seeks to equalise the playing field in education. She strongly believes in the importance of equity and diversity to make societies and organisations stronger. Naba enjoys running and skiing, and is massively addicted to Audible.

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Harpreet is the president of Macquarie University Women’s Collective, Australia’s member and Board Director of Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, NSW Wellbeing Health and Youth Commissioner and Australian Student Environment Network Community Organiser. 

A passionate advocate for justice, committed to breaking the silence, shame, and stigma surrounding social issues including sexual, domestic and family violence, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and mental health.

She was the youngest Australian Delegate at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York for three consecutive years and has helped saved gender studies from being cut at her university.

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Sharna is the Founder and Co-Director of End Rape on Campus (EROC) Australia Ltd, a volunteer-run organisation that works to end sexual violence at Australian universities and residential colleges through the provision of direct support for survivors and the communities, prevention through education, and by advocating for policy reform at the campus, state, and federal levels. Sharna is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and her paid employment is in international education, a field that she has worked in for the past decade.

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Amira is currently the  UWA Muslim Student Association's President, a  first year student majoring in Physics and Neuroscience as well as  a part-time hospitality worker.

The topics of feminism, intersectionality and equity all play a big role in her life. She feels that understanding and applying these values helps her to understand her own identity. She finds the amazing women around her  inspirational  because they are so much more than how they view themselves. She is passionate about social enterprises that strive to bring equity and benefit to the local community.

She loves reading and the outdoors. A fun fact about her  is that when she was 5, her best friend was a donkey.

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Vaishnavi RN, 20, First Year Medical Sciences & Economics student at UWA. An International Student who moved to Perth this year! With a lived experience of multiple instances of sexual assault, I’ve been vocal with the community around me and worked closely with the Sexual Assault Care Centre Singapore in research.

Coming from a conservative cultural and family background, it was subliminally etched in me that it was my fault for being too “intoxicated” or being “unconscious” resulting in feelings of embarrassment, denial and self-blame. However, I knew that speaking out would be powerful in fundamentally changing how people understand sexual assault, the culture that enables it and who should be held accountable for their actions. I hope that by being vocal and advocating for fellow survivors, I’d be able to foster necessary conversations surrounding important topics.

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I am the Founder of Young Women Against Sexual Violence (YWASV). I am absolutely in love with collaborations with local businesses for the improvement and betterment of our community, especially for the empowerment of our young women who have experienced sexual violence. As a first generation migrant of Australia, I value collectivism and intersectionality because it enhances social inclusion in our community for a positive change in our society even for just the littlest of things! 

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Rey advocates for the visibility of the trans community through the emerging medium of fictional podcasts. They are a voice actor for the Goose Thunder Podcasting Network and a producer in the Transcendental Collective, of which the latter is still in its early stages. They like to collaborate through public speaking or through podcasting (fictional or otherwise). Intersectionality is important to them because no one issue of social justice can be treated like a monolith; to tackle an issue, the diverse experiences of the community must be taken into account.

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Kirthi is an activist, artist, entrereneur and writer from Chennai, India. She founded and runs The Gender Security Project, one of the few WPS centres in the global south, which works at the cusp of gender, security, peace, and conflict through research, reportage, and documentation. Kirthi is a Vital Voices Enage Fellow, and a former Vital Voices Lead Fellow.

Kirthi coded an app for survivors of gender-based violence called Saahas. She taught herself to cods and created a web app, mobile app and a Facebook ChatBOt to support survivors of gender-based violence across 196 countries, and to assist bystander intervention. Her areas of interest include gender studies, peace and conflict research, security studies, and international human rights and humanitarian law. She formerly founded and ran the Red Elephant Foundation, a civilian peacebuilding initiative that works for gender equality through storytelling advocacy and digital interventions.

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Jasmine is the president of Melbourne University Psychology Association and is on the committee for Welfare and Disabilities Department at UMSU. She is interested in researching about the effects of emotional labour on mental well-being and if it makes one more prone to mental disorders, given her educational background in psychology. Intersectional feminism is important for her because of her lived experience of being a Sikh South Asian woman, constantly balancing the theological and cultural practices that patrol the expression of her femininity in the community. You’d get along with her if you like reading Freud and Hoschild!

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 Zoya Patel is the award-winning author of No Country Woman, a memoir of race, religion and feminism. She is also the founder of feminist literary organisation, Feminartsy and co-host of the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen.

Zoya has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and has been published widely, including in The Guardian, the Australian Financial Review, ABC, SBS, Junkee, Overland, Meanjin, Sydney Morning Herald and more. She was a 2020 judge for the Stella Prize, and is the Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel. Zoya is also on the Board of the ACT Writers Centre.

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Yasmin is an award winning speaker, writer and youth advocate. She is currently Plan International's National Ambassador and frequently appears on prominent Australian media programs to discuss the role of intersectionality in social change. Yasmin is also the Non-Executive Board Director of OzHarvest, Australia’s leading food rescue charity. 

In 2018, Yasmin represented over a million young Australians as the first ever Chair of the Victorian Government's Youth Congress. She has since gone on to represent Australian youth at APEC and the G20. 

In 2019, Yasmin was the youngest member of the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence and Top 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians.

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Previous President of the UTas Womens Collective, TUU Disability Officer, NOWSA organiser and Fem Fest Tasmania Festival Director. Saffire Grant is a LGBTIQA+ advocate/ feminist/activist and organiser currently working on events such as Reclaim the Night and campaigns such as #LetHerSpeak and One a Week.

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Chloe Hayden is a motivational speaker, actor, disability advocate and activist. Her biggest passions being disability representation and equality, climate change, equality and feminism. As a disabled woman, equity, representation and feminism are aspects that she's so incredibly passionate about, and that affect her and other’s on a daily. She believes it’s so important that we all continue to speak up, educate ourselves on, and continue to make positive changes to, so that we can all live a better future. Feminism and equity is for everyone. 

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Chloe says young women of the future generations are going to be the change the world needs to see. Change is coming, and it’s going to come from us. 

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Mariam is an entrepreneur, speaker and facilitator. In 2016, Mariam was elected Women’s Officer of Sydney University Postgraduate Association (SUPRA). In 2017, she became the President of SUPRA - leading the team that delivered a 600% increase in the organisation’s community engagement. By 2019, she had co-founded MoneyGirl to empower and inspire women to become financially independent. Now, Mariam teaches advocates and changemakers how to create and leverage a strong personal bran to amplify their impact. She is among the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence list, and a 2020 NSW Young Woman of the Year Finalist.

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Micaela is the Co-Founder of Young Women Against Sexual Violence, an organisation that engages the community in discourse surrounding consent and the normalisation of attitudes and behaviours which lead to sexual violence. She is also a volunteer at Amnesty International Women’s Rights Network and is the conference convenor for NOWSA 2020. Micaela studies a BA of psychology at UWA and a Bachelor of Nutrition at LaTrobe, and is interested in wellbeing from a holistic perspective.

She is passionate about women’s rights and intersectional feminism, and is interested in looking at justice from a transformative perspective. She believes everything is connected and that it’s important to understand how our personal and ancestral histories have brought us to be here, so that we can be conscious of ourselves and choose to create the world we are a part of.

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Sophie Stewart is the Campaign Coordinator for state-wide coalition Social Reinvestment WA, spending the last five years working to end the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in WA’s justice system.

On weekends, she also runs Swim for Refugees which she founded while studying Honours in Political Science and International Relations at UWA.

Growing up spending days at the homeless shelter her parents began in Vic Park, Sophie saw firsthand the unjust obstacles and disadvantage faced by many people because of circumstances beyond their control. 

“Far too often race, gender, ethnicity, disability, and socio-economic class dictate the outcomes of people’s lives. If we truly believe in equality, we have to work for justice in our homes, communities, and the systems that govern us.”

In her spare time Sophie enjoys live music, swimming (preferably in salt water), yoga, devouring (mostly fantasy) books, cooking up big meals to share with her friends & family over bottles of wine, and road trips with her partner and their over-enthusiastic staffy Zaff.

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Lulkbudia is a proud Miriwoong Gadjerong woman from the Kununurra WA who is living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Positioned as the First Nations Representative at the Curtin Student Guild. Lulkbudia advocates for Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander students and the unique barriers they may face while accessing education at a colonial institution. As a queer woman and psychology student Lulkbudia is passionate about mental health awareness, elevating Bla(c)k & POC voices, striving for queer & Blak representation, and providing safe spaces for community.

Lulkbudia is excited to take up space and join NOWSA to discuss the importance of intersectional feminism!

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Bre is the current President and former Women’s Officer at the UWA Student Guild. She has spent the year  advocating for students via zoom during COVID-19. Her favourite moment within the Guild was being called the ‘High Priestess of Social Justice Warriors’. Outside of this, Bre is studying her Juris Doctor at UWA.

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Kate is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws/International Relations and is La Trobe University Student Union's 2020 Queer Officer. 

Raised in the eastern suburbs, Kate grew up in religious schools and conservative settings. Her closeted upbringing has made her passionate about representation and insectionality in all spaces, and she wishes to work in Women's and LGBTQIA+ policy after she graduates.

This year, Kate has worked tirelessly with La Trobe Queer students and her fellow representatives to ensure that they are represented in the online learning space, because of COVID-19. She ran and organised La Trobe's first online Pride Festival and has also worked in student welfare, sexual assault, and domestic violence within the university.

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Jenny is a medical student from UWA with a north star of empowering peer engagement with social advocacy and cultivating change for a better world. Jenny is involved in the UWA Women's Department as the Social Impact Collective Convenor, as well as having previously presented a TEDx talk on turning compassion into action and grassroots activism as President of Students for Refugees. Currently Jenny is the Volunteering Chair at the UWA Student Guild with a focus on strategic community engagement, amplifying social impact and upskilling students through giving back to the community.

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La Red de Movimientos Feministas de Guanajuato Capital is made up of a group of collectives and women from the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. Their primary objective is to consolidate themselves as an active movement from the capital of the state by unifying all of the feminist collectives in the city, to empower the feminist movement. They emerged out of the need to unite and have their voices heard, on the need for legal, safe and free abortion, as well as on the issue of the rise in feminicides, and the lack of women’s sexual and reproductive rights. Their purpose is to accompany, support, and nurture themselves and one another, as a collective and as individuals.

Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, a unionist, a social commentator, an activist and a public speaker. She is currently a columnist for Eureka Street and has been writing freelance opinion since she started her blog “Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist” in 2012. She is a graduate of La Trobe, UniMelb and now potentially Monash University. She is also a punk music and craft beer aficionado.

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Chelle Tamika is a Zimbabwean born singer from Sydney who has appeared on TV shows such as Young Talent Time and The Voice Australia. She is yet to release her alternative R&B single ‘Jaded’ which conveys a message of hope that one day Africa’s mineral wealth will belong to the people and advance the continent. On this project, Chelle collaborated with other African Australian creative across Sydney as a celebration of diversity. She hopes to continue to use her voice to raise awareness about issues that aren’t often highlighted in mainstream Australian media and to showcase her Zimbabwean heritage.

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Ella Noah Bancroft is a custodian of the land now known as “Australia”. 

She is a descendent of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation and peoples of England, Poland and Scotland. 

Ella identifies herself as a woman and she based in the Northern NSW.   

Ella is a poetic feminist, passionate about re-wilding the world and the feminine force from the multifaceted lens of culture, heritage, gender, politics, identity and sexuality. 

Ella’s work discusses themes of identity, intersectionality, culture, the feminine force and living a life of integrity, connection and creativity.

A current theme she has been exploring in her current world is “It takes courage to tell the truth”, the title of her podcast and first published book. 

She is also the founder of “The Returning” and Yhi Creations. 

Yhi Creations is a small clothing brand, taking landfill tshirts and repurposing them with screen printing with a message.

The Returning is an event build on gifting. The gathering takes place outside of Mullumbimby and hosts 100 women to the event. 70 of those attendees are on scholarship and exchange tickets. With over 10 workshops, panels, talks and much more plus food that is local and organic provided this event is her small contribution of service to the larger community. 

She is currently on the board for “Women Up North”, Women Up North is a Northern NSW service for women, children and young people who have experienced domestic or family violence or abuse. Ella is also on the RAP working committee for Yoga Australia, working along side many other Indigenous yoga teachers bringing cultural understanding to the practice and deep respect for the land we all stand.

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