Episode Six: Grace Williams, Gentle Activist

The reMAKERs

Grace Williams is an emerging leader with a love of law, story-telling and ‘activism without resistance.’ She was born into a refugee camp in Ghana; her early life was spent in learning to speak different languages, befriending with other largely displaced peoples and not taking much of anything for granted.

Today, she has degrees in political economy and philosophy, and she’s on the cusp of finishing her law degree in Hobart, Tasmania. Along the way she has become a passionate story-teller, using books and film to shed light on issues that might seem far away (war and global conflict), or painfully close to home (domestic violence).

In this interview we talk about how both the arts and the law can serve us, about what gentle activism means to her, and why she believes it’s time to make joy the fuel — not just the by-product — of doing good work.

Grace is the Director of Citizen Tasmania, was shortlisted for the Tasmania Young Australian of the Year and was awarded the Tasmanian Human Rights Youth Award in 2020. Find her on Facebook, Instagram or @Placeofgrace97 on Twitter.

Show notes

Recommendations

Super Soul Sunday, the podcast

Films and books:

Growing up African in Australia

Citizen (film preview)

One a Week (film preview)

Together We Stand (contact Citizen Tasmania for a hard copy)