Simone Amelia Jordan is Australia's most successful rap journalist, contributing to The Source, VIBE, Rolling Stone, ABC and SBS. At 23, Simone founded and edited Australia’s highest-selling rap/R&B newsstand title, Urban Hitz magazine. Resolute about hip-hop’s power to change the world, she now mentors the next generation of multicultural talent through her work with Media Diversity Australia and Diversity Arts Australia. Her first book, Tell Her She's Dreamin', won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.