Women in Media Victoria and RMIT are thrilled to announce that author, broadcaster and gender equality expert Jamila Rizvi will deliver the Jill Singer Memorial Lecture 2025. Jamila will be joined in conversation by journalist Susan Horsburgh.

As Deputy Managing Director at Future Women (FW), Jamila champions women who work and women who want to work, through professional development, storytelling and advocacy.

Jamila was among Culture Amp’s 25 Emerging Global Culture Creators in 2024, Women and Leadership Australia’s Victorian award winner in 2020, and has been named one of The Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. She is a board member for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and an ambassador for PLAN International and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation. Rizvi writes regularly for Nine newspapers and has hosted podcasts for Listnr, ARN, Mamamia and Future Women.

Jamila Rizvi’s most recent book is Broken Brains, co-authored with Rosie Waterland and published by Penguin Random House.

Canapés and drinks are included with your ticket.

The Jill Singer Memorial Lecture

A courageous Walkley Award-winning Victorian journalist and educator, Jill Singer died at the age of 60 in 2017 after a distinguished career.

In 1992 Singer won the Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report (Television) for her ABC 7.30 Report story on Baby M, and in 1999 she received the Quill Award for Best Television Current Affairs Report.

While a lecturer in television journalism at RMIT, Singer won her second Quill Award (along with Lisa Whitehead) for Best Television Current Affairs for their ABC 7.30 Report story on flaws in the criminal justice system's treatment of domestic violence victims.

The Jill Singer Memorial Lecture celebrates inspiring women in media, encourages networking, and seeks to continue the legacy of a talented and much-missed journalist.

“To all the girls with books and pens, I hope your voices will be heard, that the extraordinary privilege that comes with being published will one day be yours,” Jill Singer.

Women in Media Victoria

Women in Media is a not-for-profit national initiative for women working in all forms of media, advertising, marketing, and communications. Our mission is to support women thrive at all stages of their careers. We deliver this through networking events, upskilling opportunities for our members, and creating a vibrant community of like-minded women.

We are grateful to be working in partnership with RMIT to deliver this event, and to our supporters Pizzini Wines and WeMov, who have generously provided drinks and food for our event.

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