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.
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.
