Shen Narayanasamy

Shen Narayanasamy is GetUp!’s Human Rights Campaign Director. She founded the No Business in Abuse project, targeting corporate involvement in offshore detention of asylum seekers, and led #LetThemStay, which prevented the deportation of hundreds of asylum seekers to Nauru.

Recently, she led GetUp’s response to the Federal Government’s attempts to change the Racial Discrimination Act, and ongoing attempts to change citizenship requirements. Shen’s background is as a human rights lawyer and advocate, working in Australia and across the Asia Pacific on issues of economic justice and land rights.