This International Women’s Day, Future Women and Witchery will collaborate, for the third year in a row, to celebrate Australia’s First Nations women.

Today’s First Nations women stand on the shoulders of giants, carrying with them the knowledge and strength of the oldest continuous culture in the world. We look forward to hearing from an incredible group of First Nations women as they come together, and share stories, as their ancestors have done for tens of thousands of years.

Join Professor Dr Marcia Langton AO, Karla Grant, Dr Summer May Finlay and Nardi Simpson as they discuss how we can break down biases and discrimination to create a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive world. This event will inspire and challenge audiences to enact change and forge equality for all women.

SPEAKERS

Professor Dr Marcia Langton AO, BA (Hons), ANU, PhD Macq. U, D. Litt. ANU, FASSA is a proud Iman woman. Marcia is a distinguished academic, most recently being appointed as the first Associate Provost at the University of Melbourne. She has been involved in most significant pieces of research and legislation affecting Indigenous Australians over the past four decades, and has advised Prime Ministers from Paul Keating to Scott Morrison.

Karla Grant is a proud Western Arrernte woman. She has an extensive media career that spans over 30 years as a journalist, producer and presenter. In that time, she has interviewed world leaders and politicians, including the Dalai Lama, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull and has focussed her career on the coverage of Indigenous affairs. Karla joined SBS in 1995 as a reporter and producer and has been at the helm of Living Black as Presenter and Executive Producer since she created the program in 2003. The program is the longest running Indigenous current affairs program on Australian television.

Dr Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman with extensive experience in Aboriginal health research and policy. Summer is a lecturer at the University of Wollongong, contributes to Croakey Health Media, is a Co-Chair of #IndigenousNCDs, Co-Vice Chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations Indigenous Working Group, and Deputy Chair of Thirrili.

Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer, and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. Her debut novel Song of the Crocodile was the 2018 winner of the black&write! Fellowship, and was longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Award. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years.

HOST

Madison Howarth is a proud Wonnarua and Yuin woman. Madison is Future Women's Community Content Coordinator and recently completed her Bachelor of Media with Distinction at UNSW. She has a passion for storytelling through a First Nations lens and has written for NME, The National Indigenous Times, Women's Agenda and 9Honey.

Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Time: 7:30am - 9:15am
Venue: InterContinental Sydney Double Bay, Grand Ballroom
33 Cross St, Double Bay

Tickets on sale now with tables of 10 available for corporates and groups.

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Future Women acknowledges the land on which our team members live and work. From the wet and windy lands of the Kulin nations, to the Kaurna people’s rolling Adelaide plains, to Gadigal and Gumbaynggirr land where the sun always shines, and across the seas to the land of the Maori people of New Zealand. We pay our respects to elders past and present. We recognise that the Aboriginal land on which many of our team work has never been ceded and the work of reconciliation is not yet done. Future Women are committed to continuing the conversations about women and their work that have taken place on this land for tens of thousands of years.