Karen Percy

Karen Percy is a journalist, director and media advocate who has been a friend of the AIS since 2014. She has championed diversity in the media industry. She sits on the board of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance as the union’s Media President. She also is Deputy Chair of the Walkley Foundation, which supports excellence in journalism. A former ABC journalist and foreign correspondent Karen is passionate about ethical journalism that is in the public interest and comes from a trauma-informed position. From 2020-2022 she was Chair of the Dart Centre Asia-Pacific which focusses on trauma education in the media sector.