Meet the Author: Heather Ellis
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Heather Ellis set out to travel alone across Africa on a motorbike in the 1990s, an adventure recounted in her inspiring book Ubuntu. An advocate for health and women living with HIV in Australia, Heather will be in conversation about the journey and the craft of writing, with Mary Farrow, manager of Emerald Community House and director of the Centre of Resilience.
See detailed biography of panelists here.

Mary Farrow is the manager of Emerald Community House. and director of the Centre of Resilience, where she helps the community through programs, festivals and services. She recently launched the Emerald Messenger, a community paper dedicated to slow journalism.

Heather Ellis is an author and a public speaker on sexual health and HIV, and the author of Ubuntu about her epic journey from south to north Africa during 1993 to 1994.
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