Hamimah Tuyan
Chair, Sakinah Community Trust
2023
Hamimah is a trained Speech and Language Therapist / Pathologist. She holds a PhD in Speech, Language and Communication Disorders from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
She lost her husband, Zekeriya Tuyan, in the terrorist attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15 March 2019.
She is the Chair of the Sakinah Community Trust, which is a women-led organization comprising strong empowered women impacted by the attacks. This Trust supports initiatives that aim to strengthen communities, promote wellbeing and build social cohesion. She is also the Chair of the Collective Impact Board which was established in May 2021 in line with Recommendation 26 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attacks. The Board facilitates public sector agencies, non-government organizations and affected families, and survivors to agree a specific work programme to provide ongoing wrap-around services to them. Hamimah actively participates in agency-led initiatives for implementing the various recommendations.
Hamimah believes that it is critical for the future health of her community and the nation that they strive to preserve the lessons learnt on 15 March 2019 and move forward resiliently together as a way to honour those lost.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
