Sozan is a Peer Facilitator with the Eastern Suburbs Peer Café, and is part of our Policy Review team. By bringing people together, she sees the potential for peers to share experiences, look out for one another and find solutions, help navigate service systems, and connect with their goals and passions.

Sozan is passionate about bringing peers together, and promoting inclusion, equality and meaningful opportunities for people with disability from CALD backgrounds. She was born in Iraq and has an Assyrian background.

Sozan used to review Easy Read policies with the Western Sydney Local Health District. She was also an ambassador with Ability Links NSW where she promoted the inclusion of people with disability from the CALD community.

She has presented at workshops about the NDIS, and featured in two videos about mental health and carers of people with disability. In Bayside Council, as part of International Women’s Day, Sozan featured on a panel exploring the power of women and community, where she shared her experience of being an Assyrian refugee and disability advocate. She’s also spoken on Assyrian radio, raising awareness around the importance for people with disability to have meaningful and equal opportunities in employment and other aspects of life.

Sozan enjoys regularly going to the gym, cooking, drinking hot chocolate, and discovering new places and going on adventures.