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Be the change you want to see — Chanel Contos, Isabelle Reinecke, Semara Jose, Sarah Brown

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Chanel Contos smiling with hand on head on stage a National Press Club.
Founder of Teach Us Consent Chanel Contos addresses the National Press Club(AAP: Mick Tsikas)

Some things feel impossible to change without money and power. Meet four trailblazers who didn't let that stop them. Now way. Fighting corporations. Stopping violence. Transforming talk on sex and consent. Helping men heal from childhood trauma. They join host Natasha Mitchell and an audience of high school students to explore what pushed them to act.

This panel was part of a 2023 WOW (Women of the World) Australia event in Brisbane for school students.

Speakers

Semara Jose
Proud Gudjula, Eastern Kuku-Yulanji and Darnley Island woman
Co-founder and leader, Deadly Inspiring Youth Doing Good (DIYDG) Cairns

Chanel Contos
Founder and CEO, Teach Us Consent
Author, Consent Laid Bare: sex, entitlement, and the distortion of desire (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023).
Chair, Global Youth Commitee for Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University

Isabelle Reinecke
Executive Director and founder, Grata Fund
Author of Courting Power: Law, Democracy and the Public Interest in Australia (In the National Interest series, Monash University Publishing 2023)
Churchill Fellow and Women's Leadership of Australia Fellow

Sarah Brown
Co-Founder of She Is Not Your Rehab
New Zealand

Lamisse Hamouda
Youth worker, writer, poet, performer and workshop facilitator.
Co-author, The Shape of Dust (Pantera Press, 2023).

Host: Natasha Mitchell

Further information:

Women of the World WOW Festival Australia

The WOW Foundation hosts festivals and events around the world

Credits

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Women, Climate Change, Activism and Lobbying, Law, Crime and Justice, Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), Rural Youth, Education, Sexual Offences, Community Organisations
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