SPEAKERS

Virginia is an award-winning television journalist and gender equity advocate. She has reported around the globe for Channel 9, the Seven Network and the ABC and anchored ABC TV News in Canberra for 15 years. In 2017 Virginia established a gender research initiative at the University of Canberra and founded the media platform, BroadAgenda. Host of the podcast BroadTalk, in 2022 Virginia was guest curator of the exhibition Australian Women Changemakers at MoAD. She is Deputy Chair of PIJI, a Public Interest Journalism think-tank; an ANZSOG Fellow; and sessional lecturer in public policy communications at UC, where she is an Adjunct Professor. In 2019 Virginia was named ACT Australian of The Year, in recognition of her community leadership and women’s rights advocacy.