Culture ‘If Not You, Then Who?’ Sally Rugg On Empathy And Activism Change.org's Executive Director on effective change making, reflections from the marriage equality campaign and her new book. By Emily J. Brooks Culture Change.org's Executive Director on effective change making, reflections from the marriage equality campaign and her new book. By Emily J. Brooks Previous article Lena Nahlous: My Favourite Things Next article ‘I Can’t Imagine Doing It Without Her’: KIC’s Laura Henshaw On Going Into Business With Her Best Friend LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and speaker Sally Rugg has had a strong sense of empathy and justice since she was a child. She was in Year One in Western Australia when she protested “the bypass” being built in her beloved Fremantle. “And we won, is the end of that story,” Rugg told a crowd of laughter at Future Women’s Melbourne Social Club. “So I do remember from a really early age, being like, ‘No, you can make signs and go in a march and then you win’.”Rugg graduated from primary school protesting to study communication and culture studies at university. She later began a masters in broadcast journalism which she never finished. While doing her masters she scored a job one day a week at political activist group, GetUp, where she called monthly donors whose credit cards had expired. Two weeks’ later she was promoted, eventually becoming the GetUp Campaign Director where she led the marriage equality campaign for five years. It’s a campaign she’s since written an entire book about. thedebrief Best Of Future Women Culture “Never an excuse”: Why Katrina still can’t stand the smell of bourbon By Sally Spicer Culture Janine never thought divorce would mean losing her family and friends By Sally Spicer Culture “Invisible victims”: Why Conor was forced to live in an unsafe home By Sally Spicer Culture Miranda*’s mothers group helped her escape abuse. Then the stalking began By Sally Spicer Culture “We can’t change this on our own” By Melanie Dimmitt Culture “Marching forward means ensuring all our voices are heard” By Melanie Dimmitt Culture Dr Ann O’Neill’s husband committed “the ultimate act of revenge” By Sally Spicer Culture The question victim-survivors like me are tired of being asked By Geraldine Bilston Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.
