The United Nations Association of Western Australia is the official WA Branch of the UN Association of Australia, a non-profit organisation providing advocacy, awareness, and a voice for those who cannot be heard. The UNA of WA promotes justice, peace, security, and sustainable development for present and future generations. On Thursday 17th of March, 2022 the UNA of WA has their event “Changing Climates: Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”.
Learn more about the incredible women speaking at this event.
Siddier Chambers, Public Policy Expert & Gender Specialist
Dr Chambers is a research consultant, working on the design, implementation and evaluation of socio-economic projects and programs across government and the private sector. As a volunteer, she serves the WA community through the United Nations Association of Australia WA Division (UNAAWA) as a member of the Executive Committee and advisor to the Gender Equality Committee; she is also a member of the Perth Caribbean Association; and contributed to the research agenda for the RRR Network in 2020-2021.
Ms Corina Martin, Mulgyin Jaru/Kitja and Gooniyandi Woman & Accomplished Lawyer
Dr Sally Lamping, Expert Educator & Migrant Community Advocate
Sally Lamping has spent over twenty years as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher in primary, secondary, and adult education contexts across the world. A large portion of her research is on the secondary English classroom and youth identities, with a specific focus on migrant youth and how schools can become enabling contexts for students and teachers.
Assoc. Professor Toni Dobinson, Established Language & Diversity Specialist
Toni has been an English language teacher, teacher educator and researcher for over 37 years. She began her journey teaching English to speakers of other languages in Egypt, the UK and the Sultanate of Oman as well as Australia. More recently, she has focused on language teacher education at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Perth and Vietnam in the areas of language and diversity, language and literacy and sociolinguistics.
Her co-edited book Literacy unbound: Multiliterate, mulitilingual, multimodal reflects this focus and brings together practitioners in literacy, English language and Asian languages. She researches and publishes in the areas of language and identity, linguistic racism, language and social justice and this has formed the basis for projects such as a collaborative participatory action project with a local multilingual primary school designed to bridge the gap between home and school for migrant children and encourage the use of heritage languages and translanguaging in the classroom.
Toni is also a founding member of the Diverse Women’s Academic Network (DAWN) and co-investigator with Sally Lamping on three Critical Participatory Action Research projects.
Ms Israa Sedda, Teacher & Cultural Ambassador
Israa is an active community leader. She co-founded an Islamic play group seeing a need to bring families together and provide exciting learning experiences for under 5-year-olds. She also volunteers teaching Arabic to children as well as doing Arabic story time as a part of Bilingual story-time program with the City of Canning. Israa completed the Diverse Women’s Leadership Program in 2021 with the Muslim Women’s Support Centre! She is the co-founder and manager for an Islamic playgroup for Muslim kids that help them to integrate while preserving their language and culture.
Dr Sandy Chong, Business & International Development Extraordinaire
Hosted by the UNAAWA, in partnership with Curtin University’s Gender Research Network and Southern Aboriginal Corporation. Come join us and our community leaders to discuss their inspiring work and how they are driving change here in WA.
Join us on Thursday, 17 March 2022 at 5:30 PM
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unaawa-international-womens-day-event-tickets-275378483457