Author: Shanna Whan

Shanna Whan is a remarkable ambassador leading a charge that is overdue for alcohol reform across rural Australia through her authentic brand of conversation which is connecting peers and breaking ancient stimgas wide open. The founder of rural movement Sober in the Country is a recovered alcoholic-turned health coach and speaker, NSW/ACT AgriFutures Rural Woman of the Year finalist from 2018, and now rural ambassador for national alcohol awareness charity Hello Sunday Morning. She has identified, shared, and is addressing a serious gap of invisible rural Australians she said are slipping through the cracks of our current mental health care system.