Sono leone

Sono Leone is a proud Garrawa and Butchulla woman living on Turrbull country. Sono is a proud daughter, wife mother to 4 beautiful ghundus. Sono is the Founder and CEO of Strong Women Talking and has a career spanning over 15 years working in the Brisbane Northside community services sector particularly within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Over the last 10 years Sono has worked within different leadership capacities and completed different leadership studies with Australians Indigenous Leadership Centre and more recently Australians Together. Sono is an active participant of many different groups including Women’s Network group BBLFO which is a network of over 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from across Australia. Sono was awarded People’s Choice Award for ADM’s 2018 Annual Funding Event in Sydney and also facilitated the Faith Workshop at Breaking Silent Codes Conference in Redfern in 2018. She was also invited to speak at the National Uniting Women’s Conference in 2018. Sono was one of 11 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women on Our Watch’s Advisory Group for the Change the Picture Resource. Sono is also apart of Wesley Mission Qld’s RAP committee and also serves on different Boards within the community and interstate including ID Know Yourself in NSW, supporting children in out of home care. Today she is the Founder & CEO of Strong Women Talking Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Corporation. Sono is an advocate for the prevention of violence and creates culturally safe spaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to unpack and learn about the cycle of violence.  She has a passion to see the cycle of domestic and family violence broken within communities for generations to come.