Meet the Canberra Ladies in Enterprise 2022 award winners | The Canberra Instances

At GREN, the workforce takes cotton from landfills, flip it into new T-shirts for companies, and on the finish of these T-shirts’ lives, recycle them again into the system time and again.

GREN makes use of hyper-local, moral, and clear provide chains, by coordinating relationships with moral companies in our native areas. They take possession of each product they create, working to finish the ‘take-make-dispose’ trend mannequin.

The initiative launched in 2021, serving to small companies create round provide chains which can be higher for individuals and the planet.

Ms Knopik additionally based and is the present board president of the CBR Gals Community, a grassroots, volunteer-led not-for-profit, whose mission is to consciously join and advance Canberran girls and their companies.

Dixie Crawford is a Barkindji girl from Brewarrina and Damaged Hill, she lives on Ngunnawal nation in Canberra and is the founder/director of Nganya, an Aboriginal engagement consultancy specialising in cross-cultural management, together with the event of reconciliation motion plans.

Rising up in Brewarrina, Ms Crawford spent her days with cousins on the riverbank swimming, fishing and listening to the tales of her aunts and uncles and their teachings to look after nation.

She leverages her private {and professional} experiences to problem concepts and alter the way in which “it is all the time been performed”. She desires to make a distinction in the way in which Aboriginal individuals are heard and understood. Her ardour helps others to know the reason for obstacles that impression considering and doing on the subject of participating with and creating alternatives for First Nations peoples and communities to thrive.

This 12 months she launched a podcast, and was named certainly one of 20 Australian Ladies Making Strikes in 2022 by the Australian Enterprise Journal, was a speaker on the 2022 Reconciliation Australia convention and was appointed to the Cricket ACT board.

Nganya is 100 per cent Aboriginal, female-owned and operated.

Amanda Snashall, Digital Design Companions

Amanda Snashall is the co-founder of Digital Design Companions. Her bachelor’s diploma was in software program engineering, which led to an honours diploma in multidisciplinary engineering.

Her first profession steps have been into the world of ICT and engineering that culminated along with her being a venture supervisor for the Canberra Clear Power Connection. Whereas engaged on her PhD she took on roles on the ANU to offer herself with an revenue, which led to assembly her enterprise companion, Lakshmi West.

Digital Design Companions was based to assist organisations higher have interaction with their prospects and supply providers that improve their expertise. Along with their workforce, the enterprise brings in depth expertise in innovation and design considering to drive change, guided by an empathetic view of individuals, course of and repair expertise.

The preliminary concept behind the corporate was to assist companies to make use of info and communication expertise to enhance.

Chaturica Athukorala, Aurabox

Chaturica Athukorala is a radiologist, co-founder and chief govt of Aurabox.

She obtained her Bachelor of Medication and Bachelor of Surgical procedure from the College of Adelaide in 2007.

Ms Athukorala was appointed a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Radiologists in 2016 and at the moment practices on the Canberra Hospital and BreastScreen ACT.

She has a subspecialty curiosity in breast imaging and co-founded Aurabox in June 2021 to resolve points confronted by herself and her colleagues when accessing medical imaging in medical apply.

Medical Imaging is vital affected person info that must be accessed and shared by docs as a way to diagnose, handle and monitor sufferers.

Presently this course of is tough, as medical imaging practices use completely different knowledge storage methods that don’t talk with each other.

This implies docs are unable to view a affected person’s whole imaging historical past in a single place, which regularly causes remedy delay, pointless repeat imaging and potential medical inaccuracy.

Aurabox is a cloud-based medical imaging storage and viewing platform which permits docs to entry full imaging histories for his or her sufferers, no matter which medical imaging apply they attended.

Jo Farrell, Kane Constructions and Construct Like a Woman

Jo Farrell’s profession spans over twenty years and throughout a number of spectrums of the development trade. A certified carpenter by commerce, licensed builder, licensed constructing designer and now basic supervisor of a multi-million-dollar development firm, she has actually labored from the bottom as much as be the place she is in the present day.

Her journey began in 1996 when she completed highschool and had no intention of going to college. Her ardour had all the time been to grow to be both a vet or a builder. Given her aversion to blood and needles and what she says have been lacklustre grades, vet science was out of the query. So she determined that constructing was the way in which to go.

Ms Farrell is captivated with seeing extra girls in development, and elevated gender fairness. She additionally based the not-for-profit organisation, Construct Like A Woman, which goals to assist girls enter commerce and apprentice roles.

Established in 2020, Construct Like a Woman is a mannequin and a motion for girls in commerce roles.

She developed the inspiration of Construct Like A Woman from her personal expertise working as a feminine tradie within the constructing and development trade. She wished to develop one thing greater than a program, she wished to create a motion to create change.

Kristine Hewett, Adamas Nexus

Kristine Hewett is the co-founder and director of Adamas Nexus, a registered charity that helps girls to cope with the post-crisis life-long trauma of home violence and sexual abuse.

With Adamas Nexus, Ms Hewett makes use of her expertise of childhood home violence to assist others, and as therapeutic and help for herself.

Adamas Nexus has been working for 4 years each face-to-face and on-line utilizing a repeated format every assembly that gives the attendees with a identified agenda and permits them to be as concerned as they want to at every assembly they attend.

Ms Hewett is captivated with serving to girls by means of peer help, sources, and group.

By enabling survivors to know they don’t seem to be alone, listening to comparable tales, experiences and feelings and having the ability to communicate in a confidential and supportive surroundings, Adamas Nexus goals to positively have an effect on this advanced social drawback.