Sasha Sarago has a diverse ethnic background. Her mother is Aboriginal, and father, African American. Sasha’s Mother, Delphine, brought her back from the states as a child to ensure she grounded an identity connected to her ancestry.

Sasha’s grandfather is from the Wadjanbarra Yidinji clan and her Grandmother, is Jirrbal. These clans are known as part of the ‘Rainforest People’ from tropical Cairns.

Different to what she learnt about colonisation at school, Sasha is reflective and careful to discuss the history of the first people on this land. Sasha is one of many Indigenous Australians still here, preserving and creating new cultural narratives.

Sasha Sarago hopes to empower women with a new magazine launching in October called Ascension. It seeks to endure among the others which lack diverse representation of women.

Sasha has been accused of being ‘too pretty to be Aboriginal’ in the past, but Ascension she hopes, will make a stand against these stereotypes.