Race and Racism

Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, and one of America’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He chronicled the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement and launched Fatal Force, a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. His most recent book, American Whitelash, chronicles the rise in white supremacist violence in the United States in the years since Barack Obama’s was elected.

Kirstie Parker is a Yuwaalaraay woman from NSW now living in Adelaide. Her extensive career in First Nations affairs has encompassed elected Co-Chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, and editor of The Koori Mail newspaper. She won the 2018 Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript by a First Nations writer; her novel will be published by UQP. Kirstie is a signatory to the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, and a Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia.

Larissa Behrendt is a Euahleyai/Gamillaroi woman – an award winning author and an award winning filmmaker. She is the author of several books and writes and directs for film and television. She is also a lawyer and an academic based at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio.