Speaker and Facilitator
I have presented at various events around Sydney and collaborated on friends and colleagues podcasts, documentaries and workshops. I have presented and run workshops for various business groups as well as facilitating my own workshops and seminars.
International Women's Day 2023
I was invited to be the Keynote Speaker at Killester College (my old school) for International Women's Day 2023 . The theme was "Embracing Equity" and I got to share my personal story and to speak about women stepping outside of stereotypes and women forging careers despite obstacles.
Sharing my story
Jackie shares her story of leaving domestic violence in Melbourne and starting a new life in Sydney in 1987. City of Sydney in collaboration with The Brown Council storytelling event “Them Heavy People, This City, That Decade. Green Square Library Saturday 29 January 2022
Your Brain On Comedy Documentary
Join Tina Zaman, M.F.A, creator & organizer of Tight5comedyau, Australia’s first and only antiracist comedy club, as she gets Sydney Comedians of Colour, friends plus trauma expert Jackie Nugara to break quarantine and chat about the role of creativity, humour & live stand-up comedy performance in cultivating social change, mental health & mindfulness in artists & audiences al
Your Brain On Comedy Podcast Episode 1
May 29 2021 Psychotherapist & trauma expert Jackie Nugara emerges from quarantine to walk us through how first person storytelling triggers responses in the brain & how stand up comedians can go beyond limited thinking to effect positive social change while performing to live audiences.
