A Chance To Tap Into My Inner Warrior

She has nearly 80,000 Instagram followers and her TED talk has been viewed online 45,000 times.

She’s known internationally as an innovator, entrepreneur and humanitarian whose work ranges from founding a company that makes safety products for travellers to being an ambassador for The Global Fund, a multi-billion dollar NGO that aims to eradicate HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

Next week she will deliver a keynote speech for Microsoft in Dublin. Before that, however, Stephenie Rodriguez will represent Australia in a totally different field, competing at the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Cup event in Cardiff. The Sydneysider, whose life was upended by a mosquito bite during a business trip to Nigeria in 2019, is striving to become our first Paralympic fencer since 2000 and our first female Paralympic fencer since 1968.