About the Author

Antoinette Lattouf is a media personality, diversity advocate, author, mum of two girls and is terrible at reverse parking. The multi-award-winning journalist is the co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, a not-for-profit organisation working towards increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the media. In 2019, Antoinette was named among AFR's 100 Women of Influence. In 2021 she was awarded a Women's Agenda Leadership Award and the B&T Women in Media's Champion of Change award. Antoinette is co-host of 'The Briefing', Australia's fastest-growing daily news podcast She's worked in television, online and radio at Network 10, SBS, ABC and triple j. She's been a guest panellist on ABC's Q+A, SBS's Insight and The Feed, Sky News, and Network 10's The Project and Studio10. Antoinette regularly writes columns for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian and Mamamia. Antoinette is also an ambassador for parent mental health organisation Gidget Foundation, after experiencing debilitating postnatal depression and anxiety herself. She now quite likes both of her children.