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City of Sydney

What we miss when we simplify refugee stories

Refugee Week ambassador Samah Shda on the importance of embracing complexity and discomfort — and why the stories we find hardest to hold are often the ones that matter most.

Published 4 June 2025 · City of Sydney News

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Coming April 2025

The stories that save us

Samah's upcoming article with Rally Magazine — exploring how storytelling becomes a tool for survival, healing, and collective power in migration and displacement contexts.

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Our partners & collaborators

From non-profits and government bodies to corporate teams and community organisations.

Refugee Council of Australia
National refugee ambassador program — advocacy storytelling & speaker training
Training
KPMG Australia
Think Visual event — compassionate storytelling & EDI workshop
Corporate
Story Factory
Cultural safety consultancy — discovery, research & implementation
Consultancy
Rally Magazine
Guest editor, Migration Issue — ethical commissioning & cultural safety
Media
UnitingCare Queensland
Storytelling workshops — reframing refugee & migrant narratives
Non-profit
City of Sydney
Refugee Week ambassador 2025 — published article on ethical storytelling
Government
Shapeshifters
Co-hosted Think Visual at KPMG — visual storytelling & EDI
Design
Multicultural NSW
COMPACT grant funder — Global Positive Peace Program
Government
UNSW Founders Program
Supported the founding and early development of Unbound Stories
University
JEINA — UNSW
Collaboration partner in the founding story documentary
University
Institute for Economics & Peace
Global Positive Peace Program — youth cohort, Western Sydney
Research
Shayna Humanitarian Services
Co-delivery — Global Positive Peace Program, Western Sydney
Non-profit
Buckets of Hope
Refugee ambassador coaching — personal branding & advocacy storytelling
Coaching

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