Sara Mansour

Sara Mansour is an Australian lawyer, writer, poet, and founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia which offers an artistic outlet for the young people of Western Sydney to share their voices in a safe and inclusive environment.

Education Mansour graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Laws from Western Sydney University. Mansour also co-founded the first ever National Youth Poetry Slam in 2022.

In 2018, Mansour was one of the nine founding board members of NOW Australia (a national organisation that sought to provide assistance to victims of sexual harassment, intimidation, or abuse in the workplace) led by veteran Australian journalist Tracey Spicer AM. The show was nominated for an AACTA Award in 2020.

In 2023, Mansour was appointed as youngest-ever board member of the Opera House Trust and will sit alongside the first Indigenous chair, Professor Michael McDaniel. In 2024, Mansour and the Bankstown Poetry Slam team hosted Palestinian journalist, Plestia Alaqad, for a sold out slam at the Sydney Town Hall.

Honours and recognition

2017 Canterbury-Bankstown Australia Day Award for Young Citizen of the Year 2024 Creative Australia $50,000 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship Recipient 2024 NSW Young Australian of the Year finalist