Jamila Rizvi Travels from Melbourne, VIC

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Jamila Rizvi is a best-selling author for adults and children, a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and co-host of The Briefing podcast.

Jamila previously advised the Australian Government on gender equality, child care, media and employment. She has been named in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence and is a 2020 Women and Leadership Australia award winner.

In 2017, Jamila published her best-selling book 'Not Just Lucky, a career manifesto for millennial women. A year later it was long-listed for the Australian Book Industry Awards in 2018

In the same year, she released her second book ‘The Motherhood’, an anthology of letters about the first three months of life with a newborn. So far, Jamila has donated $15,000 in proceeds from 'The Motherhood' to CARE Australia, helping give women and girls in the developing world a better life.

In 2014, Jamila was named one of Cosmopolitan’s 30 Most Successful Women Under 30 and in 2015 and was listed as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review. In 2017, she was included in the Weekly Review’s Top Ten List of Young Rising Stars in Melbourne.

Jamila is a board member of the Wheeler Centre, and an ambassador for PLAN International and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation.

Jamila lives and works on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne, with her husband Jeremy, 7-year-old son Rafi, Sonny the dog and a lot of unfinished lockdown craft projects.