Samara Shehata The National Suicide Prevention Conference 2024

Samara Shehata

Samara Shehata (she/her) is the current Acting Manager for LGBTQ+ Health Equity at ACON, she has worked alongside many fierce community leaders and advocates for the past 10 years to improve the health and wellbeing for all people in the LGBTQ+ community across NSW. She is informed by her cross-disciplinary background as an artist, art therapist, international sex worker rights advocate and program manager. Samara is a queer woman of colour who has lived experience of suicide and mental health. She is passionate about community led and designed projects that centre self-determination, community care and social transformative justice.

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