Name: On the Table: Women and Diversity at Work [Selling Fast]
Start: 2022-11-11
End: 2022-11-11
Location: Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, West Tower Suite

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Friday 11 November

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Location

Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, West Tower Suite

Sofitel Melbourne on Collins (West Tower Suite), 25 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible

Accessible toilets available

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About

Modern Australian women face complex challenges at work irrespective of their chosen field. For women of colour, these challenges are amplified by intersecting issues of inequality and discrimination. Coming together for Spring Fling, a panel of women of colour share their professional experiences and personal perspectives for an informative and necessary exploration of taking and holding space in the workplace. Tasneem Chopra is an experienced cross-cultural consultant who addresses leadership, cultural competence and intersectionality across private and public spheres. Tishya Desai is a program and learning designer, currently managing Future Women's webinar series supporting Australian women to upskill and build their confidence in the workplace. British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won awards and global acclaim for novels that centre ambitious, complex women of colour, including Home Fire and her more recent work, Best of Friends. In an intimate lunchtime setting at Melbourne’s iconic Sofitel on Collins, this panel hosted by journalist and Deputy Managing Director of Future Women Jamila Rizvi offers the opportunity to listen to and learn from a breadth of stories, challenges and successes of women of colour in professional life.

Please note Nyadol Nyuon will no longer be appearing at this event.

This event will be photographed and recorded for use by the Wheeler Centre. Supported by Sofitel Melbourne on Collins and Future Women

About Spring Fling

Celebrating our return to the stage and the rejuvenation of the arts and culture communities, Spring Fling is a short series of big ideas offering a delectable picnic spread of events with leading thinkers, writers and creators from Australia and abroad. Spring Fling is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.

Featuring

Tasneem Chopra

A cross-cultural Consultant, Tasneem addresses issues of diversity, equity and inclusion across organisational leadership, including intersectionality within government, corporate, arts and community sectors. For her efforts she was recently appointed the inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia, and in 2020, awarded an OAM. Tasneem has been named an ‘Anti-Racism Champion’ by the Australian Human Rights Commission and holds a Distinguished Alumni Award from La Trobe University in recognition of her impact in the diversity sector. She is a Board Director for The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), as well as a Strategic advisor for Fire Rescue Victoria and the Collingwood Football Expert Panel on Anti-Racism. Tasneem has also enjoyed governance affiliations with Ambulance Victoria, the In-Touch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence, the Luke Batty Foundation, NOW Australia, and Board Chairing roles for the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights and Lentil As Anything. A TEDxMelbourne presenter and writer, Tasneem has featured in SBS Life, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald and appeared on BBC’s IQ2 Debates, Q&A is a regular panellist on The Drum and host of the podcast series, Strengths Untold.

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Tishya Desai

Tishya Desai is a program and learning designer with a passion for using education as a tool for good. Tishya has previously worked with social enterprises and newly arrived migrants and refugees in Australia and she currently manages Future Women's webinar series supporting Australian women to upskill and build their confidence in the workplace.

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages, including Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone. Her previous novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award for International Book. A Vice-President and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London. Her new novel is Best of Friends, published in September 2022.

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Jamila Rizvi

Jamila Rizvi is a diversity, equity and inclusion expert, best-selling author, and sought-after public speaker. She is Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, an organisation that helps women who face barriers to employment return to work and advises employers on gender equality. Jamila is an author for adults and children, and a columnist for Sunday Life magazine, available weekly as part of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Jamila is also a co-host on The Briefing podcast. Previously, Jamila advised the Rudd and Gillard Governments on gender, early childhood education, media, and employment participation. She has been named in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence and was a 2020 Women and Leadership Australia award winner. Jamila is a board member of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and an ambassador for PLAN International and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation. She lives and works on Wurundjeri country.

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