Wendy Syfret is an award-winning Melbourne based writer, editor, and author of The Sunny Nihilist (Profile) and How to Think Like an Activist (Hardie Grant). She is currently serving as Editor in Chief at RIISE. Previously she was Managing editor of VICE Asia, Head of Editorial for VICE Australia, and Australian editor of pioneering fashion publication i-D. Her work regularly appears in the Guardian, Crikey, Frankie, and the Saturday Paper.