Grace Forrest

Biography

Grace Forrest, BA
Abolitionist.
Grace is a founding-director of the Walk Free Foundation, an international human rights group with an objective to end modern slavery. Grace has spent extensive time on the ground working with survivors and documenting slavery conditions throughout South East Asia and The Middle East, with a current focus on refugee communities. Grace is also a representative on the Freedom Fund counsel of advocates, is a director of the Minderoo Foundation, and recently joined the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. In 2018, Grace was awarded Nomi Network’s Abolitionist award and GQ Australia’s Humanitarian Award for her work to end modern slavery, was named The United Nations Association of Australia’s Goodwill Ambassador for Anti-Slavery and was appointed as one of ten global leaders to One Young World’s Young Leaders Against Sexual Violence initiative, which will work to create tangible change in preventing sexual and gender-based violence worldwide.

Grace is a passionate storyteller and photographer, with a focus on the resilience of individuals to overcome some of the worlds greatest challenges. Through her work with the Freedom Fund and their front line community partners, Grace works to put a face to modern slavery with the aim of highlighting slavery as a problem of the collective. She has documented stories of survivors from Thailand, Nepal, India, Syria, Lebanon, North Korea, Jordan and Indonesia. Grace has had her work exhibited in a number of publications throughout the world, including the cover of CHANCE (a magazine co published quarterly by the American Statistical Association and Taylor & Francis Group) Modern slavery issue in 2017.