Agitating Around Black Lives Matter in Australia will be the subject of a talk by Juliana Nkrumah AM at Sydney Rotary Club on Tuesday 13 October.

Juliana was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia in the General Division in 2013 for her work with women in Australia. She is the Domestic and Family Violence Project Manager at Settlement Services International.

For over 10 years, Juliana coordinated the NSW Police Force’s Multicultural Community Liaison Officer Program. She led NSW and Australia’s work on Female Genital Mutilation for 11 years and continues to maintain subject matter expertise on this cultural practice and its impact on communities in Diaspora.

Her passion for centering the voices of African women in relevant discourses led her to found African Women Australia. She has served on Boards to improve the status of women, including YWCA Australia, Australian National Committee on Refugee Women, Act for Peace, African Ministerial Committee, and the Eminent Australians Committee that reviewed the Australian Citizenship Test. Juliana has also been awarded the title Woman of The West and has received a Zest Award.

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