Stop talking about anti-racism. Start doing it.
I speak to institutions, healthcare teams, and conference audiences ready to stop talking about anti-racism and start doing it.
Where my authority comes from
My authority comes from three places: 23 years as a Doctor inside Australian healthcare, lived experience navigating systems designed to exclude me, and a heritage that sits at the fracture points of what this country calls "belonging."
My great-grandfather was a cameleer, Gulam Badoola, part of the Baluchi diaspora who built the Australian frontier, and his wife, Mariam, was a First Nations Yamatji Badimaya woman from the Murchison region of Western Australia. My father carries First Nations heritage, severed by the Stolen Generations. My mother came from Pakistan with no family, carrying disconnection and a lack of community her whole life. I grew up in the Pilbara with no one like me, no cultural mirror, no community that reflected my identity.
That fractured belonging — Aboriginal disconnection and diaspora disconnection woven together — taught me to see what institutions do when they decide who counts. It taught me to recognise the patterns.
I deliver keynotes on
Heritage and belonging
The stories we inherit, the stories we're denied, and what that tells us about who Australia includes.
Structural racism in healthcare
The gap between what we say we do and who gets filtered out; practical pathways through it.
Health equity as leadership
Why this work is strategic, not optional; how it reshapes institutional culture.
Racialisation and power
Naming what's happening when institutions say "culture" or "religion" but filter by who people are.
Knowledge, isolation, and belonging in healthcare
What clinical expertise means when you're isolated from community and institutional power; healing in systems not built for you.
How I work
I work in your language. If you're a healthcare team, we talk evidence, clinical practice, patient safety, and the bottom line. If you're an institution navigating belonging and accountability, we talk systems, structural change, and what leadership looks like. If you're asking hard questions about whose histories we tell and why, I speak to that too.
I don't give motivational speeches or abstract theories. Instead, I focus on clarity and stories — the kind of keynote that leaves people with practical steps to implement by Monday. I also emphasise that belonging is not innate; it's something institutions must actively create.
Ready to bring this to your organisation?
Speakers Kit available on request