Antoinette Lattouf is a media personality, diversity advocate, author, mum of two girls, and terrible at reverse parking.
The multi-award-winning journalist is the co-founder of a not-for-profit organisation working towards increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the media.
In 2019, Antoinette was named among AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. In 2021 she was awarded a Women’s Agenda Leadership Award. She’s worked in television, online, and radio at Network 10. SBS, ABC, and triple j. She’s been a guest panelist on ABC’s QandA, SBS Insight, Sky News, Network 10’s Studio10, and The Feed.
Antoinette is also an ambassador for the parent mental health organisation Gidget Foundation after experiencing debilitating post-natal depression and anxiety with her second child. She now quite likes both of her children.
A lump on her neck made headlines around the globe after a television viewer encouraged her to go and see a doctor. It turned out to be a thyroid cyst requiring prompt surgery, and Antoinette is now an ambassador for the Australian Thyroid Foundation and no longer looks like she has an Adam’s Apple.
Antoinette has been Master of Ceremonies at a range of events around the country including the Queensland government's multicultural awards, National Wage Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), and Gidget Foundation launches. She has spoken at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, International Women's Day University of Sydney Business School, Women in Media, and Special Olympics Australia fundraisers.
Antoinette’s first book 'How to Lose Friends and Influence White People' was published in 2022.
Antoinette is a formidable journalist, presenter, advocate and more. She lights up any room, and is able to engage and evoke dynamic conversations that must be had. She is a trailblazer in her own right in Media in Australia, and I would highly recommend her in every and any sense of the journalistic word.
Wendy Daoud El-Khoury