Hi, I’m Emma Lang.
Too often the people doing incredible work on the ground and holding the insights our systems reforms needs, fail to be taken seriously and heard where it is needed most.
I’m a seasoned strategic communications professional, who for better or worse, has had a weak spot for social justice. I’ve worked exclusively with leading social services, policy wonks, foundations and corporate partners, to bring about the relationships and partnerships organisations need for lasting change.
Policy advocacy
Media and Digital
Empowered mothering
I kicked off my professional life in Canberra with social services calling for policy change. This spanned energy affordability, gambling reform, charity regulation - coordinating conferences and receptions at Parliament, Old Parliament House, and drum roll, televised events at the National Press Club.
Wanting an excuse for lippy and heels, I then provided content marketing for Charities Aid Foundation in Sydney to grow corporate grants and charitable giving. I campaigned for #KidsOffNauru with ASRC and provided media, family and crisis comms for Anglicare Victoria aged care during Covid-19 outbreaks.
Becoming a mother in 2021 and having our second in 2024, each week I’m inspired by the cohort of women and gender diverse activists who are reimagining m/othering and care work. Involving some 80% of women in Australia, how so overlooked? My rough takes at @mamay_kiss.
Newsletter
A monthly column to your inbox with the occasional hot take, but more likely, average musing from the week. Jotting-down the minefield of mothering. And reflecting on the social and economic blahs that get in its way (kill me now).
While I’m at it, you’ll receive the odd reflection on folk attempting to bring about policy and social change. We can all but try. If you’re into feminist mothers and strategic comms? This may just be your lucky day.