Rhiannon Tracey

After a pool accident made her a quadriplegic just before her 21st Birthday, Rhiannon’s big plans for the future were suddenly put on hold. Everything happens for a reason - While it took many years to believe it, Rhiannon says her injury has given her a newfound purpose she had never felt before, enabling her life to blossom into what it is today. Along her recovery journey Rhiannon became the Napoleon Makeup Academy’s first ever quadriplegic graduate, launched her own freelance makeup business, has grown an impressive blog and social media following and forged a career as a motivational speaker as well as becoming the first female on wheels to dominate the catwalk at the 2019, Melbourne Fashion Week which has paved the way for the diverse and inclusive run way we see now during some of Australia’s biggest Fashion Show’s. In 2016, Rhiannon was named Cosmopolitan’s ‘Game Changer’ Woman of the Year and has also been awarded 2012 Young Australian of the Year, 2013 Women’s Day Women of the Future nominee, 2014 Access & Inclusion Australia Day Award recipient, 2015 Wings for Life World Run Australian Ambassador and in 2019 joined a group of remarkable women raising awareness for Women’s Mental Health by becoming a spokesperson and ambassador for Liptember. This woman certainly doesn’t do things by halves!