Kirra Spiteri is a nurse and an international studies student at Deakin University, currently majoring in both politics and policy and international relations.
She is a passionate writer and advocate of human rights, with particular interests in intersectional gender equality and refugees and asylum seekers — nationally and throughout the international system.
As such, Kirra has been involved with Amnesty International since 2017 and is a member of the Amnesty International Australia Feminist Network.
You can follow Kirra on Twitter @spiterikirra.
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