Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster with almost 40 years in the media, including anchoring national programs for ABC TV, Network Ten and Sky News.
The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the Asia-Pacific on artificial intelligence, social justice and equity. Her book about AI, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was longlisted for a prestigious Walkley Award. It won the Social Responsibility category, and was a finalist in the Technology category, in the Australian Business Book Awards.
Tracey is currently on the Global Advisory Board of For Humanity, which convenes the world’s smartest minds to reimagine democracy. In 2026, she joined a high-powered delegation to the 70th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
In 2019, Tracey was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize with Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. ABC TV highlighted Tracey’s #metoo work in the docuseries, Silent No More.
In 2018, she was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. For her 30 years of media and charity work, she has been awarded the Order of Australia.
Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is a bestseller, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views worldwide.
Career highlights include documentaries in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, PNG and India, and not-for-profit work as an Ambassador for ActionAid, the Ethnic Business Awards Foundation, Emerge Australia, and the Australian POTS Foundation, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.
Tracey worked with Emerge Australia to create an advocacy video highlighting the disproportionate amount of women affected by ME/CFS and long COVID. Visit Tracey’s website today – http://traceyspicer.com.au/
