Aishah Ali

Aishah Ali is a proud Fijian-Indian woman, practicing lawyer, award-winning, multi-disciplinary spoken word poet, writer, educator, and community organiser on Gadigal land.

With over ten years of experience as a spoken word poet, Aishah has captivated audiences at prestigious events and venues across Sydney, including but not limited to TedXSydney, Sydney Writers Festival, VIVID, Sydney Opera House, Town Hall, and the ICC, and across the Sydney slam poetry scene. Her work has featured in various poetry anthologies, journals, media publications and online forums.

She is the current co-director of Muslim Agenda, a leading national community organisation dedicated to uplifting Muslim female voices across intersectional identities, disciplines, and backgrounds. She is also the recent founder & director of Mind If I Come? (mi;c) an offline platform focused on producing ‘creative third spaces’ for the purpose of suicide prevention and mental health improvement for women in Australia. Aishah has made significant contributions to the Australian literary, poetry, and muslim creative landscape as an organiser and art curator, notably for the Brave New Word Festival, the National Youth Poetry Slam and oscillates as a substitute host to her second home, Bankstown Poetry Slam.