Budi is the founder and Director of Ananda Training and Consultancy, a community advocate, and a sexual health researcher. Budi has been involved with Melbourne’s LGBTQIA+ communities for over 20 years, and has continued to use their academic knowledge, professional expertise, and lived and living experiences to advocate for intersectionality, equity, and justice. Budi is passionate about ensuring that inclusion covers all people, and is committed to influence positive change among the LGBTQIA+, ethnic, and faith communities to ensure that multicultural and multifaith LGBTQIA+ can embrace all aspects of their identities without prejudice and discrimination. Budi is a contributing author of Living and Loving in Diversity, an anthology that celebrates Australia’s multicultural and multifaith LGBTQIA+ communities.