Grace Tame: Biography in Details
Who is Grace Tame?
Grace Tame is a known Australian activist, Visual artist, yoga teacher, long-distance runner, and advocate for survivors of sexual assault.
On 25 January 2021, she got titled of 2021 Australian of the Year. She is also an activist who fought against her teacher Nicolaas.
How many siblings does Grace Tame have?
Tame was born on December 1994 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and she is at the age of 27. She holds Australian citizenship and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Her father’s name is Michael Tame who is a former Tasmanian cricketer and her mother is Penny Plaschke.
Education, School, College
Grace Tame dropped out of St Michael’s Collegiate in 2013 and then enrolled in different high schools to graduate year 12 with an ATAR of 98.3. after that, she migrated to the united states where she attended Barbara City College and graduated with a degree in the theatre arts and liberal arts.
Grace Tame: Professional life, Career
As an Advocate
To put a stop to the rape, she launched the #LetHerSpeak campaign alongside Marque Lawyers and End Rape on Campus Australia. She and other survivors have also spoken openly about their incidents. Many celebrities from all around the world, as well as leaders of the MeToo movement, were captivated by this.
Grace Tame talked for the first time after the campaign in August 2019, and she won the gag law. She was the first female sexual assault survivor in Tasmania to get a court order allowing her to talk about her incident.
The Act was revised in October 2019 to allow sexual assault survivors to openly speak out, and Archer also stated the statement “That word relationship contains Connotations of permission”.
The legislation was altered in April 2020 to allow Tasmanian survivors to speak out.
Tame has become an advocate for others, seeking to educate the public about abduction and psychological manipulation, as well as to reduce the social stigma related to sexual assault. Grace has worked with the Los Angeles Human Trafficking Squad and campaigned for education as a fundamental method of preventing child sex abuse. She also wishes to remove victim-blaming and to normalize speaking publicly. She also organized the Women’s March 5 Justice event in Hobart on March 15, 2021.
Grace was the first non-celebrity to feature on the cover of Marie Clarie magazine. She has also been recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s Next Generation Leaders.
Awards, Nominations
| Awards | Years |
| Tasmanian Australian of the Year | 2020 |
| Australian of the Year | 2021 |
| Ross Marathon in a Course record time | 2020 |
Grace Tame: Net worth, income
Grace Tame has been featured in many popular magazines and also she works as a yoga teacher and advocate. Her income comes from her career. She is a person who does not share her income. As of 2022, she has an estimated net worth of $500k.
Is Grace Tame involved in any rumors and controversies?
Tame fought bravely against her Abuser teacher Nicolaas Bester. In the year 2010, she was repeatedly raped on school grounds by her 58 years old math teacher. Her teacher thought that she would stay silent but she fought for her justice.
At 16 she somehow found the courage and report Nicolaas to the police. Because of her courage, the abuser got sentenced to jail. And she also campaigned against an archaic law that allow her abuser to speak publicly while she was forbidden from using her name to tell her story. Because of this the law was changed and spread understanding and has given strength and hope to other survivors of abuse.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight
Grace Tame has a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall and a weight of 68kg. She has maintained her body very nicely. Looking at her appearance she has blonde long hair and blue eyes. She has not shared her body measurement like hips, waist, and bra sizes with the media.
Social media
Grace Tame is active on social sites like Instagram with a huge fan following of 82.8k and it is under the name of @tamepunk and also has 98.6k followers on Twitter with 535 tweets. However, she has not been active and accounts under her name on Facebook sites.
Trivia
- She was diagnosed with a disease named Anorexia in 2010.
- Her school provided her with a dual scholarship.
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