Episode description

What would it be like to design a city from the perspective of justice? On this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a London-based,  Sudanese-Australian writer, engineer and award-winning social advocate. Yassmin shares her thoughts about forgiveness, inclusive leadership and what it means to live in a city where each resident feels self-expressed and without fear. 

Yassmin trained as a mechanical engineer and worked on oil and gas rigs around Australia for years before becoming a writer and broadcaster.  She published her debut memoir, Yassmin's Story at age 24, and followed up with her first fiction book for younger readers, You Must Be Layla, in 2019. Yassmin founded her first organisation, Youth Without Borders, at the age of 16, leading it for nine years. Yassmin has spoken in over 20 countries on unconscious bias and inclusive leadership and today she joins us from London, UK.