Join us online as Maddy and Winnie chat with Karina Reeves and Leon Huxtable about what culturally responsive relationships and sexuality education (RSE) looks like in practice across schools, community and adult settings with migrant and refugee communities and second-generation migrants.  

Karina Reeves is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner based in Perth, Western Australia. She is currently the Coordinator of Population Health and Community Development at WAAC (formerly the WA AIDS Council), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting health equity and fostering inclusive communities to support sexual health for all and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Her practice centres community voice, cultural safety, and peer leadership, with a focus on HIV and sexual health promotion. Karina believes that meaningful change happens when programs are co-designed with the people most affected and when health systems make space for lived experience, connection, and care. Karina holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and is currently the Co-President of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association, and a committee member for the Bloom-ED Advocacy Group. Previously, she was the Co-Chair of the International Student Sexual Health Network.

Leon Huxtable (he/him) is a Schools and Community Educator at Sexual Health Victoria. He was awarded a Master of Education (Student Wellbeing) from The University of Melbourne in 2019, and he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Secondary) from The University of New South Wales in 2014. Leon has worked at Sexual Health Victoria since 2022 and was previously a secondary school teacher working in New South Wales and Victoria. His research interests include education around sexual content online, and working with migrant and refugee communities.