- Inducted:
- 2023
- Category:
- Local Champion
Akuch is an academic researcher at Latrobe University, completing her PhD on the impact of family violence intervention orders on South-Sudanese Victorians.
She is also an advocate, author and emerging community leader. She combines lived experience, academic knowledge, and a fierce intellect to pursue system change.
Akuch’s accomplishments are numerous, spanning the domains of social justice for women, court accessibility for African-Australian women, pre- and post-settlement challenges of African-Australians from refugee backgrounds, and educating mainstream service providers delivering trauma-informed culturally responsive workshops on the needs of South-Sudanese women who experience family violence.
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