We believe in diversity of thoughts, ideas, and lived experiences. True innovation and creativity thrive in diversity, and it is important for us to have a leadership team that looks and thinks differently, consciously beyond default views and perspectives. We strongly believe that having a culturally-rich, racially & ethnically-diverse board with an intersectional approach to solving systemic issues facing Australia’s Women of Colour of today and in the future is what’s fundamentally going to help us drive the change that we want to see in our communities, our society, and the world.
We need a Chairperson and two more Non-Executive Directors. We would especially love to hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and Black women.
We acknowledge the Wallumattagal clan of the Darug nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Women of Colour Australia is situated. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with whom we stand in solidarity. We acknowledge that as settlers on this stolen Aboriginal land, we are beneficiaries of the dispossession, genocide, and ongoing colonial violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We believe that it is our collective responsibility and moral imperative to help dismantle the systemic barriers and structural inequities oppressing the original inhabitants of this land. We are also painfully aware that this land was taken forcibly, without a Treaty or reparations made. We have taken a practical step towards honouring sovereignty by paying the rent – and we invite you to do so too. This land is and always will be Aboriginal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.