Iona's story

Iona Johnson is a literacy coordinator at Libraries Tasmania and she works at Risdon Prison.

Iona won the ‘Engaging our Learners: Adult award’ at the Department for Education, Children and Young People’s Together We Inspire Awards in September 2019 for her passion and hard work in lifting skills in reading, writing and maths.

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