Contributor Type: Speaker

Vy Pham Vy is a 24 year old mental health advocate who migrated to Australia from Vietnam. She is an active resident of Western Sydney and key presence in Youth Mental Health, particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse Australians.   Vy continues to promote mental health by recognising the intersectionalities that exist and seeking to […]

Michael Sun Michael Sun is a critic and essayist whose work revolves around queerness, memory, and internet ephemera. He currently works in culture and lifestyle at The Guardian, where he recently hosted the online culture podcast Saved for Later. His writing on film and music has also been published in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, […]

Steve Dresler Rising NRL star turned Founder of disability support provider What Ability, Steve Dresler reveals the strategy behind building a national support service at 21 years old, and embracing the power of sport to break down barriers in the disability sector.

Raina MacIntyre Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, Australia. She leads a research program in control and prevention of epidemics, pandemics, bioterrorism and emerging infections. She is a graduate of Australia’s field epidemiology training program and has extensive field […]

Allan McCay Allan McCay is the Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Law School where he coordinates the Legal Research units and lectures in Criminal Law. In connection with his work on neurotechnology, criminal law and human rights, Allan has been named as one […]

Lyria Bennett Moses Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and Faculty lead in the UNSW […]

Andrew Quilty was born in Sydney in 1981. His photographic career began at Fairfax Media in 2005. After leaving Fairfax in 2010 and working as a freelancer for several years, in 2013, he travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan, just as the international community was winding down involvement in the country. Quilty based himself in Kabul and […]

Emma Bacon is a passionate organiser, campaigner and activist. Emma has worked across  movements for social and environmental justice for over 10 years on campaigns including an international asbestos ban, 10 cent deposits on bottles and cans, and union campaigns with shopping centre cleaners. She has run successful political campaigns and been part of winning […]

Sharanjit is a Principal at strategic analytics firm Finity. He is an actuary with nearly 30 years’ experience in actuarial consulting in the UK and Australia, and prior to working at Finity he was Group Head of Environmental, Social and Governance risk at QBE Insurance.  As an actuary, Sharanjit uses his risk management, financial modelling […]

Esmé Louise James is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in the faculty of English and Theatre Studies. Her thesis investigates the emerging genre of the pornographic novel in the eighteenth-century, and its relation to aesthetic discourse of the time. She is best known for her irreverent lecture series on TikTok, Kinky History, […]