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Sarah Rosenberg is the 2023 recipient of the Making a Feminist Difference in Community Activism award. She created the “With You We Can” resource, as she navigated the deepest trauma of her life. This resource sprung from a commitment to ensure others would not experience what she had.
Audrey Mims is the recipient of the Making a Feminist Difference in Community Activism award. She currently serves as the Chair of The STOP Campaign Board a grassroots not-for-profit feminist organisation working to prevent sexual violence in Australian tertiary learning communities through activism, empowerment, education, and awareness.
Eezu Tan is the 2023 recipient of the For Making a Feminist Difference in Community Activism award. Together with Marlene Baquiran, they have improved the status of women through their climate letter-writing group.
Marlene Baquiran is the 2023 recipient of the For Making a Feminist Difference in Community Activism award. Together with Eezu Tan, they have improved the status of women through their climate letter-writing group.
Kristine Hewett is the 2023 recipient for Making a Feminist Difference in Community Activism. She set up and runs Adamas Nexus post-crisis domestic violence support groups for women who have been subjected to violence, abuse or intimidation.
Annie Crowe is a tireless advocate for neurodivergent women in Australia. She founded and is the Chair of the Board for the not-for-profit, Eating Disorders Neurodiversity Australia (EDNA).
Maha Krayem Abdo is a passionate advocate for social justice. She serves as the CEO of ‘Muslim Women Australia'(MWA), a representative body for Muslim women advocating for equality and the rights of all women, through authentic leadership based on Islamic principles.
Awardee, Brittany Higgins has become the figurehead and inspiration for a new force, an influence in reminding previously silenced women that they indeed have a voice.
Awardee, Ann Reynolds is the convenor of the Women Write Wiki group which was inaugurated in March 2017 at The Women’s Library in Newtown.
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We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Edna Ryan Awards supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the call for a First Nation's Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling.
