Sonia Di Mezza, CEO, Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services

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Sonia Di Mezza is the Chief Executive Officer of Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services. Sonia was the recipient of the Kaplan Business School Masters of Business Administration scholarship in 2019.

Sonia is the daughter of Italian migrants, who migrated to Australia in the 1950s. She is a human rights lawyer and solicitor and has set up a legal aid project in the camps of Khartoum, Sudan; set up a human rights project in Pakistan for Afghan widowed refugee women and their children; worked as a Resettlement Consultant for UNHCR in Lebanon; worked for a child labour rights NGO in India for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi; and as a refugee lawyer in Australia.

Her most recent roles include Deputy CEO of a disability advocacy NGO in the ACT; CEO of a domestic violence NGO in the ACT; and Deputy Chair of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council of Multicultural Affairs. Sonia is the co-author of a book relating to the memoir of an Indian woman who contracted HIV in an arranged marriage. ​

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