Tracey Spicer is an iconoclast whose TEDx Talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’ has been seen by nearly 1.5 million people. Tracey has anchored national news, current affairs and lifestyle programs for several TV networks, and has brought her sassy style to talkback radio. Her ‘full-frontal’ columns appear weekly in metropolitan newspapers and on opinion websites. The 49-year-old is the cofounder and national convenor of Women in Media. Tracey’s memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare has recently published. Tracey lives in Sydney,
 

Tala Raassi is a fearless fashion designer who shares her journey from imprisonment and forty lashes for the crime of wearing a mini-skirt in her beloved homeland of Iran, to founder of an international fashion empire. Raassi wrote a book called Fashion is Freedom: how a girl from Tehran broke the rules to change her world, an inspiring true story of how courage, a dream, and some needle and thread can change a life forever.
 

Bri Lee is a Brisbane-based freelance writer and the Founding Editor of the feminist magazine, Hot Chicks with Big Brains. She is qualified to practice law – but doesn’t – and her debut memoir Eggshell Skull will be published by Allen & Unwin in 2018.

Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has been a travel writer, a magazine editor, a newspaper columnist, a TV scriptwriter and a novelist.  She is the author of three best-selling novels The Girl Most Likely, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay and Joel and Cat Set The Story Straight (coauthored with Nick Earls). Since 2009 Rebecca has focused on writing non-fiction books for teenage girls to help them navigate those tricky high school years. Those books include Find Your Tribe  (and 9 other things I wish I’d known in high school); Find Your Feet (The 8 things I Wish I’d Known Before I Left High School) and the best-selling Ask Me Anything (heartfelt answers to 65 anonymous questions from teenage girls).