Our next special guest on the Flourish Girl Podcast is Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran (she/they) 

Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is a Tamil whose ancestral lands are in the north and east of Illankai (known as Sri Lanka). They are the Director of Technology Policy at Reset Australia, a think tank focuses on the threats Big Tech poses to democracy. 

Dhakshayini is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University School of Regulation and Global Governance (ANU RegNet) exploring race, surveillance and digital identification systems. She is a former civil engineer who has founded and led several non-profit organisations and projects across Australia and the Pacific. They have worked on migration (as the former Director of Human Rights and Racial Justice at the ACCR), climate change (with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fiji), and with young people (as the founder of YLab).

We touch on some incredible topics, such as: 

• The safe identity we play in high school 
• The subconscious world of cultural shame 
• Reclaiming your power when systems and structures don’t allow you too 
• Healthy digital security measures to use on social media 
• How to deal with discrimination in the workplace - The Politics of Refusal 
• The importance of values in an organisation 
• The fluidity that exists within leadership 

 && so much more 

Listen today &  while you’re at it, why not donate to an incredible cause by clicking on Flourish GIrl’s fundraising page (also in our bio!) 

If you want to find out more information about Dhakshayini, head to their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dhakshayinis/ , Twitter - https://twitter.com/dhakshayini_s & Here are some links to recent articles she has written or spoken about 

• https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IlxBFbOFApQlHno8aUk65?si=cMPgRxV1TJSxuHo3hCc09A&dl_branch=1&nd=1 
• https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2021/07/resisting-robo-governance/ 
• https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/5/21/surveillance-will-not-save-us-from-covid-19