Antoinette Lattouf

Antoinette Lattouf

Australian Broadcaster, Columnist, Author, Human, Rights Advocate

Antoinette Lattouf is a broadcaster, columnist, author, speaker, human rights advocate, mental health ambassador who dabbles in satire and is terrible at reverse parking.

Antoinette is the creator and co-host of ‘The Antoinettes’ podcast, a weekly commentary and comedy podcast. She is also the co-host of news and analysis podcast ‘The Briefing’.

The multi-award-winning journalist is the co-founder of Media Diversity Australia — a not-for-profit organisation working towards increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the media. Her columns appear in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, and Women’s Agenda.

Antoinette’s first book ‘How to Lose Friends and Influence White People’ was published by Penguin Random House. It is a witty and approachable anti-racism guide and an honest exploration of the modern manifestations of systemic racism in Australia today, and how we, as a collective, can take steps to make change. Providing practical tools, using warmth, humour, and research to share evidence-based solutions that can be used by anyone.

In 2019, Antoinette was named among AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. In 2021 she was awarded a Women’s Agenda Leadership Award and B&T Women in Media’s Champion of Change. In 2022, she was an Influencer of the Year Finalist at the Third Sector Awards. In peer selected awards at her year 10 high school formal, Antoinette was awarded Most Likely To Die A Virgin.

Antoinette gave a TEDx talk in Sydney called ‘reverse discrimination doesn’t exist but tokenism does”. Here she tackled the pale, stale, male phenomena by adding what she dubbed ‘Gayle’ to the mix as a beneficiary of privilege and bias.
Antoinette is also an Ambassador for parent’s 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. Antoinette also appeared on ABC’s You Can’t Ask That, detailing her harrowing journey.