Shukufa Tahiri works as a policy officer with the Refugee Council of Australia. Her work involves policy analysis, research and advocacy on national issues affecting the human rights of people seeking asylum and refugees. She is the secretariat for Refugee Communities Advocacy Network, a refugee led organisation that aims to embed grass root refugee voices in policy decision making. She continues to support grass root communities in various platforms including through local and national media. She has supported various community legal centres such as Anglicare Legal and RACS in order to widen legal access to marginalised communities and asylum seekers.
She is an executive board member of Akademos Society that helps fund the education of internally displaced and refugee youth and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amnesty International Australia recognised her as one of the 15 women championing human rights in Australia in 2017. The Australian Financial Review has also recently named her as one of 2018’s 100 women of influence in Australia.