Between conviction and care

I'm Amanda Brummell, a diversity, equity and inclusion strategist, writer and advocate. For nearly two decades I've worked across law, community, academia and the social sector, turning careful thinking into decisions people can act on.

My path began in law and social justice. I ran public interest law programs at UNSW's National Pro Bono Centre, working with national and international courts and tribunals, then moved through chaplaincy, university teaching at Alphacrucis and postgraduate study at Uppsala University. I've since advised across sectors, including diversity and inclusion survey design for Netflix in the Asia Pacific, and today I lead enterprise DEI strategy, risk and accreditation. I hold qualifications in law and political science and bring a structural lens, grounded in rights, to every inclusion problem. As a member of the Institute of Community Directors Australia (MICDA), I bring a governance and safeguarding perspective too.

A chapter in Sweden shaped how I work: community work, a social enterprise, and coordinating a COVID-19 response for isolated and vulnerable families. I work bilingually in English and Swedish, and I design for the people a system forgets first.

The thread running through it all is belonging: the conviction that better decisions happen when more people are genuinely in the room, and heard once they're there. I write to make ideas usable, and I care, on purpose, as a discipline.