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Confirmed Speakers

• Elizabeth Broderick
  Elizabeth is Australia’s Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner. She has overall responsibility for advancing gender equality in Australia. Commissioner Broderick has been a key advocate for Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, increasing women’s workforce participation and recognition of domestic violence as a workplace issue.
• Jenny Gray
  Jenny Gray is the Chief Executive Officer of Zoos Victoria. She has a background in management, transportation, engineering and ethics which provides a unique set of skills to tackle the challenges of transforming the three zoos of Zoos Victoria, Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo.
• Jeremy Meltzer
  Australian social entrepreneur, Jeremy Meltzer, started making olive oil with his father in Yellingbo, Yarra Valley, in 2004. In 2010 Jeremy established Yellingbo online as a social enterprise, by donating to UN Women with every olive oil sale. Realising the potential, he began officially partnering Yellingbo with some of the most dynamic women and girls’ development organizations in the world, including The Nike Foundation and Women for Women International.
• Rimali Withana
  Ramali is a Melbourne poet and spoken word performer. She has been writing for 20 years and has recently performed across venues in Melbourne.