Hemanta Acharya has worked as a clinical nurse specialist and mentor to graduate nurses. She is also a talented football player who played for Australia in FIFA's Football for Hope Festival, held during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Hemanta was born in a refugee camp in Nepal after her family was forced to leave Bhutan. She spent 15 years in Nepal and was one of the first to arrive in Australia as part of a program to settle Bhutanese refugees, one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australia’s history. 

We are Blacktown is a UTS Impact Studios production.
Producers: Britta Jorgensen, Jane Curtis, Celine Teo-Blockey 
Executive Producer: Olivia Rosenman
Sound design: Melissa May
Research: Jackie May
Podcast artwork: Alexandra Morris
Theme music: Beaming by FRIDAY

Hemanta Acharya has worked as a clinical nurse specialist and mentor to graduate nurses. She is also a talented football player who played for Australia in FIFA's Football for Hope Festival, held during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Hemanta was born in a refugee camp in Nepal after her family was forced to leave Bhutan. She spent 15 years in Nepal and was one of the first to arrive in Australia as part of a program to settle Bhutanese refugees, one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australia’s history. 
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We are Blacktown is a UTS Impact Studios production. Producers: Britta Jorgensen, Jane Curtis, Celine Teo-Blockey  Executive Producer: Olivia Rosenman Sound design: Melissa May Research: Jackie May Podcast artwork: Alexandra Morris Theme music: Beaming by FRIDAY

Portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Dharug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.   

Experience stories of strength and thriving communities, straight from Sydney's West. And to see pictures of each of these people, visit https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown

We are Blacktown is part of a place-based audio project by Impact Studios, supported by the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The project, Welcome to Blacktown, sought to learn about Blacktown’s many and varied communities, together with the innovative and inspired social change work that is happening there. Over six months, the Impact Studios team conducted almost 100 interviews with people connected to Blacktown, exploring and investigating the question of how communities thrive. The interviews were rich, broad and non-extractive. We sought to understand the full context of what each person was doing. We listened to them tell stories of their lives, on their own terms: their families, their passions, their work and what motivates them to do it, their challenges and achievements. 

We are Blacktown is produced by Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney, in partnership with The Paul Ramsay Foundation. 

Portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Dharug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.   
Experience stories of strength and thriving communities, straight from Sydney's West. And to see pictures of each of these people, visit <a href="https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown">https://impactstudios.edu.au/weareblacktown</a>
We are Blacktown is part of a place-based audio project by Impact Studios, supported by the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The project, Welcome to Blacktown, sought to learn about Blacktown’s many and varied communities, together with the innovative and inspired social change work that is happening there. Over six months, the Impact Studios team conducted almost 100 interviews with people connected to Blacktown, exploring and investigating the question of how communities thrive. The interviews were rich, broad and non-extractive. We sought to understand the full context of what each person was doing. We listened to them tell stories of their lives, on their own terms: their families, their passions, their work and what motivates them to do it, their challenges and achievements. 
We are Blacktown is produced by <a href="https://impactstudios.edu.au/">Impact Studios</a> at the <a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/">University of Technology Sydney</a>, in partnership with <a href="https://www.paulramsayfoundation.org.au/">The Paul Ramsay Foundation</a>.

A series of immersive portraits of Blacktown community leaders and people working for change. You'll hear from a doctor who is sounding the alarm about how dangerous heat can be for human health, a basketball coach whose players have made it to the big league, a Darug traditional owner whose art and stories are telling the true history of the area's first people, and many more Blacktown legends.

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