Passionate about the development of the social innovation landscape in Australia, and with diverse professional experiences ranging from facilitation and public speaking to communications and event management, I am currently Projects Director for Collaborative Consumption in June 2010. Collaborative Consumption describes the big shift from hyper-consumption in the 20th Century to new forms of sharing, bartering, lending, swapping and renting in the 21st Century reinvented by online platforms and social networks. Prior to this, I spent two years as Communications Manager for a national architectural practice, and have also helped the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX) with communications for its inaugural Social Innovation Camp in March 2010. More recently, I have been collaborating on Gennio.org, a web-based social enterprise generator and marketplace, and she also acts as the Australian connection for MakeSense.org, a social business connecting social entrepreneurs worldwide through the web. I was Managing Director of The Brightest Young Minds Foundation in 2009 and am currently on their Advisory Board. With a Bachelor of Creative Industries (in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies) from Queensland University of Technology (2004), I also completed a Graduate Certificate of Business in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies from QUT in 2009 and am currently enrolled in a Master of Applied Innovation and Entrepreneurship from The University of Adelaide.