Respect Champion – Jennifer Wittwer
23 April 2015
As part of YWCA Canberra’s Respect NOW campaign, over the coming weeks we’ll unveil our passionate Respect Champions. These wonderful women are helping us further our advocacy efforts, calling on the ACT Government to prioritise funding for primary prevention and early intervention programs, to end violence against women. To support the Respect NOW campaign, please […]
Staff Snapshot – Jackie Green
23 April 2015
Jackie Green is YWCA Canberra’s Children’s Services Operations Manager. Working closely with the Director of Children’s Services, she oversees three early childhood services, 13 school age care programs and our family day care scheme. The Children’s Services portfolio employs approximately 200 educators and provides care to over 1200 children each week. Can you tell us […]
Respect Champion – Darlene Cox
20 April 2015
As part of YWCA Canberra’s Respect NOW campaign, over the coming weeks we’ll unveil our passionate Respect Champions. These wonderful women are helping us further our advocacy efforts, calling on the ACT Government to prioritise funding for primary prevention and early intervention programs, to end violence against women. To support the Respect NOW campaign, please […]
Women’s organisations lobby PM on gendered violence
17 April 2015
Today, more than 60 Australian women’s organisations signed a joint open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling for funding and leadership to address the root cause of violence against women, gender inequality. With 31 women having been killed in Australia as a result of gendered violence this year alone, YWCA Australia felt it was […]
She Leads 2015: 5 quick questions with Yamini Naidu
17 April 2015
In the lead up to this year’s She Leads Conference, taking place on Tuesday 19 May at Hotel Realm, we’ll be giving you the chance to get to know our speakers. Today, meet Yamini Naidu. Yamini is a global thought leader in business storytelling and the co author of the recently published ‘Hooked: How Leaders Connect, […]
She Leads 2015: 5 quick questions with Emma Bennison
10 April 2015
In the lead up to this year’s She Leads Conference, taking place on Tuesday 19 May at Hotel Realm, we’ll be giving you the chance to get to know our speakers. Today, meet Emma Bennison, the CEO of Arts Access Australia. Describe yourself in 30 words or less: A leader and advocate with the capacity to […]
She Leads 2015 : 5 quick questions with Jessica May
2 April 2015
In the lead up to this year’s She Leads Conference, taking place on Tuesday 19 May at Hotel Realm, we’ll be giving you the chance to get to know our speakers. Today, meet Jessica May, founder and Chief Executive Officer of the innovative web based Enabled Employment, a labour hire company for people with a […]
She Leads 2015 : 5 quick questions with Nipuni Wijewickrema
27 March 2015
In the lead up to this year’s She Leads Conference, taking place on Tuesday 19 May at Hotel Realm, we’ll be giving you the chance to get to know our speakers. Today, meet Nipuni Wijewickrema, 2014 ACT Young Citizen of the Year and co-founder of GG’s Flowers – a socially sustainable florist that only employs people with […]
Working For Purpose
20 March 2015
The following is an abridged version of a speech given by Caterina to the Women in Information and Communication Breakfast Series in Canberra last week. I have to start by letting you all know that I’m not presenting to you on my own today. I am actually joined by ‘Blue’ who is all of 20-and-a-half-weeks […]
She Leads 2015 : 5 quick questions with Dr Sarah Pearson
20 March 2015
In the lead up to this year’s She Leads Conference, taking place on Tuesday 19 May at Hotel Realm, we’ll be giving you the chance to get to know our speakers. Today, meet Dr Sarah Pearson. Sarah is an internationally experienced Open Innovation practitioner and advocate for collaborative innovation in Australia, and is CEO of the […]