Raesha Ismaiil
2023
Raesha has a Bachelor of Education and Master of Counselling with Distinction from the University of Canterbury. She is a self-employed educator and mental health counsellor. Raesha has her own private practice called Safehouse Consultancy and Counselling Ltd. She is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury as part of the Faculty of Health Counselling department.
After the loss of her brother during the March 15th terrorist attacks in New Zealand it is her best hope to use this adversity to help bring more community awareness about being a Muslim and what hope and healing looks like in Islam. Raesha promotes and presents workshops that support cultural diversity and inclusion.
Raesha is a trustee for Sakinah Community Trust which is made up of strong empowered women impacted by March 15th 2019. This organisation supports strengthening communities, promoting wellbeing, and building social cohesion.
The Eradicating Hate Global Summit was both eye-opening and empowering. To have so many experts in the field of countering hate, all there sharing their expertise, working towards practical and real world solutions, was incredibly unique. It is this focus on meaningful conversations, answers, and solutions that makes Eradicating Hate so incredibly important. The spread of hate is a wicked problem, and the way Eradicating Hate approaches it is how we are going to solve it.
