Tara June Winch

Author, Social Commentator

‘Tara June Winch is a most stimulating young person to know and to interact with, an active mind and a truly engaged social being.’ Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

What is your dream?

To write many books well into old age, to be vociferous about things I care about always and to always work on behalf of the human rights of others.

What do you do in your spare time?

Write songs for performance.

What other jobs have you had?

United Nations intern and consultant in New York and Australia Council for the Arts, representing national youth, ATSIAB.

What are you passionate about?

Female education and literacy, indigenous issues and poetry as free expression.

Haven’t I seen you before?

Perhaps doing song-writing workshops with various artists, as an InStyle woman of style nominee, or drumming up support for global issues as an Ambassador for Indigenous Literacy Project and PLAN International.