Our Team
Manasi Wagh
(She/Her)
CO-FOUNDER | PROGRAM DESIGN + INTERSECTIONALITY IN PRACTICE
Serial entrepreneur. Tea maker. Gin lover. Passionate about the right of women and girls to not just survive financially, but to thrive.
Manasi develops, designs and drives tailored financial capability programs for migrant and refugee women, and women who have experienced family violence.
Her program Let’s Talk Money, delivered with Women’s Health in the North (Victoria), won the 2019 VicHealth Award for Promoting Gender Equality, and is a benchmark in peer-educator and multilingual delivery models.
Manasi is one of the few humans alive who can talk about intersectional economics at parties and not scare people off. This super power means that she is regularly invited to present and consult on women’s intersectional economic empowerment for government, corporate and not-for-profit organisations, and works with finance experts to develop program content.
As a migrant woman, Manasi has lived experience of barriers to economic empowerment. For over 10 years, she has worked in the women’s health promotion and family violence prevention sectors in Australia.
And if this wasn't enough, Manasi also runs a food business, The Brew Story, driven by her passion to bring traditional Indian Ayurvedic health benefits to the masses, and to obliterate sticky chai from the collective consciousness.
Narelle Sullivan
(She/Her)
CO-FOUNDER | BUSINESS NINJA
Rabble-rouser. Life-long learner. Veggie patch dweller. Dedicated to breaking cycles of disadvantage for women and girls and supporting them to step into their power.
Narelle brings gender equality initiatives to life through a laser-sharp focus on social impact combined with business smarts. She loves nothing more than to work alongside big vision thinkers and purpose-driven organisations to translate ideas into reality, linking ideas and people from multiple disciplines and sectors.
She has 20+ years experience spanning general management, business development and operations for social justice and gender equality organisations including Homeward Bound, a global initiative for female scientists set against the backdrop of Antarctica; gender equality and prevention of violence campaigns for Women’s Health in the North (Victoria); and child-led anti-bullying and anti-racism programs for Kids Thrive.
In a past life she was a writer and editor, ran away with the circus, and produced a visual art installation for New York photographer Spencer Tunick, involving 4,000 naked people at dawn in the rain in winter.
Narelle holds an EMBA (with distinction) from RMIT University, for which she won an award for a food waste solution that she co-designed as part of HEC Montreal and Nobel Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus’ Social Business Creation competition.