Aarti Betigeri is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and former foreign correspondent, born in Melbourne to parents from Maharashtra and Karnataka. After an early career as a radio and television news presenter and producer with SBS and the ABC, she moved to India to fulfill a long-held dream to report on South Asia, and lived in New Delhi for almost a decade. Currently, she works as a journalist and advisor focusing on international relations. Her name is surprisingly easy to pronounce.
Daizy Maan is a curator, speaker and advocate. She is the founder of Australian South Asian Centre - an organisation dedicated to empowering South Asian women founders, creatives and professionals – and has led Deakin University’s flagship start up program and later the University of Melbourne’s Accelerator Program. She has been recognised as one of the most influential South Asian Women from around the world by the AWF Power List, and her work has been featured on SBS News and the ABC. She recently produced and performed in Brown Women Comedy at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. Daizy is proudly Punjabi-Australian and lives in Melbourne.
Priya Saratchandran was born and raised in the north-west suburbs of Melbourne, returning every second year to the embrace of her Malayalee motherland. A resolute “underdoggist”, Priya has worked as an anti-discrimination lawyer and in law reform and human rights advocacy. In her spare time she is a plant nerd and a dancer (classical and RnB), loves kiddo and doggo cuddles an solving a cracking murder mystery over a nice cup of masala tea.