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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Donna Baines, University of Sydney
Donna Baines is a cisgender, white female. Her family originally immigrated to Canada from many parts of Europe, in some cases fleeing arrest for union organising and, in others, fleeing poverty and religious perse-cution. Donna has joined many social justice movements and activities in her life. She moved with her family to Australia to be part of a social justice school of social work. Her work draws on anti-oppressive, feminist, anti-racist, intersectionalist and Marxist approaches. Donna is Chair and Professor of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney.
Bindi Bennett, University of the Sunshine Coast
Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaraay woman who is a social work lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her interests include equine therapy, trauma, Aboriginal social work, Aboriginal identity and well-being, as well as increasing cultural responsiveness in social work education. She has small aims of decolonising the world and emancipating Aboriginal peoples. Bindi is also a mother, a partner, a friend and a horse lover.
Linda Briskman, Western Sydney University
As the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University, Linda Briskman works to uphold the reform traditions of the Whitlams. She conducts research, publishes and advocates in three areas critical to human rights Indigenous rights, asylum seeker rights and challenging Islamophobia. She works from the premise that social work needs to engage with politics to be effective in contributing to social justice and social change.
Nafiseh Ghafournia, University of Sydney
Nafiseh Ghafournia is a Muslim immigrant woman. Her minority and religious status places her at a similar level with the research participants. During the data collection process, most of the women expressed the comfort they felt sharing their experience with her because of her familiarity with Islamic values and culture. Nafiseh recently completed her PhD at the University of Sydney.
Susan Goodwin, University of Sydney
Susan Goodwin is a white Australian woman who came to Sydney to work in feminist services and feminist policy machinery. She is passionate about the power of ideas and ways of thinking, and regards her research, teaching and community engagement as political practice. She works with communities in Australia and countries in the region to participate in shaping the knowledge, policies and practices that impact on their lives through community-led and action research. Her work is informed by poststructural and feminist theory.
Sekneh Hammoud-Beckett, Therapist and Activist
Sekneh Hammoud-Beckett is an Australian woman of Lebanese Muslim ancestry who holds a position of curiosity in her work as a therapist and activist, which she uses to explore and honour peoples creative acts of resistance. Seknehs community work spans more than 20 years. She teaches both nationally and internationally at reputable universities and has received international recognition for her inviting people in concept. Sekneh is passionate about the therapeutic work in which she engages with young people of diverse cultures, religions, genders and sexualities. She considers the therapeutic process a privilege, and is committed to researching the potential of young people and their families when navigating the grips of a problem. Sekneh believes her work is love made visible.
Amy Harper, Youth Counsellor
Amy Harper is a white Australian queer person living and working in Sydney. Amy is a LGBTQIA+ youth counsellor, which has had a large focus on navigating services for trans and non-binary young people. Prior to this, Amy worked for many years in adult recovery-oriented mental health services. Amys approach is largely conversational and collaborative honouring the persons experience, perspective and strengths. Amy believes in a holistic, compassionate and non-pathological practice that is informed by social justice principles. She is very interested in topics around community connection, identity and healing.
Sigrid Herring, Community Worker
Sigrid Herring is a Gomeroi woman from northwest New South Wales with Welsh and Scottish heritage, the third generation of her family born off Country, her childhood was spent in Ngarigo and Ngunawal Coun-tries and since then on Darug Country. Sigrid has worked in family and community development in community-based settings for more than 20 years and in educating workers to support families and communities for 15 years. She works for the reinstatement of Aboriginal men and womens agency and recognition as world leaders in parenting, child development and protection and as cultural designers of happy, healthy, sustainable lives for families and their environments.
Susan Heward-Belle, University of Sydney
Sues family originally immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine and Scotland. Sue grew up in northern Canada, living mainly in Edmon-ton and Yellowknife. She immigrated to Australia in the 1990s where she has worked as a social worker and educator in the area of child welfare and domestic violence. Sue completed her PhD and joined the University of Sydney in 2014. Her research, teaching and advocacy are underpinned by principles of social justice, human rights and gender equity, and aim to develop socially just institutional responses that honour the inherent dignity and resistance of people who have experienced violence.
