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Meet Woman Fellow: Prachi Arya (Spring 22)
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Meet Woman Fellow: Prachi Arya (Spring 22)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Prachi was working as a research fellow at a think tank at the time of the fellowship and is now working as a policy/financial analyst at the ACT Treasury.
Meet Woman Fellow: Samantha Wood (Spring 22)
Women
Career

Meet Woman Fellow: Samantha Wood (Spring 22)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Sam has spent most of her career to date working operations in and around small businesses, from being the general manager of a rum bar at 23 to rolling out full ops systems and processes across Jamie Oliver's Australian restaurants, to a tech and agile scaleup sized consultancy.
Meet Woman Fellow: Magdalena Kortas (Spring 22)
Women
Career

Meet Woman Fellow: Magdalena Kortas (Spring 22)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Magda was a Data Scientist in Poland before moving to Syndey to become a Data Scientist at Cloud infrastructure company, Kablamo.
Meet Woman Fellowship: Jess McKellar (Spring 23)
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Meet Woman Fellowship: Jess McKellar (Spring 23)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Jess was working for a Healthcare start-up when she found the WF. It opened her up to a world of new ideas, including the potential to change her career after 10 years of being an Executive Assistant. She’s currently working in Cloud Infrastructure and looking forward to what lies ahead.
Meet Woman Fellow: Izzy Bigio (Autumn 22)
Women
Career

Meet Woman Fellow: Izzy Bigio (Autumn 22)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

From medical doctor to platform manager for Blackbird Aotearoa, hear more about Izzy's journey.
Stories from the Fellowship - Rae Addison, Winter20 Fellow
Women
Career

Stories from the Fellowship - Rae Addison, Winter20 Fellow

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Sophia Witherington

August 15, 2025

We are catching up with our Fellow alumni to hear what they have been up to since finishing the program.
Meet Woman Fellow: Alex Carr (Autumn 21)
Women
Career

Meet Woman Fellow: Alex Carr (Autumn 21)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Alex started her career as a corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney and quickly realised I wanted to do something purpose driven instead. She considers herself lucky enough to be given a role at a small Australian AgTech scale up where she was exposed to VC and the vibrant world of startups. She knew she wanted to jump back into that world after her time abroad in London but wasn't sure how…
Stories from The Fellowship  —  Victoria Gregg
Women
Career

Stories from The Fellowship  —  Victoria Gregg

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Sophia Witherington

August 15, 2025

As we conclude our fourth Fellowship cohort with 100 incredible women, we are catching up with the Fellows to share their experience of the program.
Meet Woman Fellowship: Fiona Moncrieff (Autumn 23)
Women
Career

Meet Woman Fellowship: Fiona Moncrieff (Autumn 23)

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Jessica McKellar

August 15, 2025

Fiona started her career as a clinical dietitian at Monash Hospital, before defecting from the frontline and transitioning into the product team of an early-stage healthtech startup in London called Second Nature, who are committed to solving the type-2 diabetes and obesity crisis through mindset and behaviour change coaching. Here she started out as a health coach before transitioning into the content design team, and then the product team as a program / product manager.
Stories from The Fellowship - Nicole Tang, Winter20 Fellow
Women
Career

Stories from The Fellowship - Nicole Tang, Winter20 Fellow

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Sophia Witherington

August 15, 2025

Having concluded our third Fellowship cohort (first women-only cohort) one month ago, we are catching up with the Fellows to share their experience of the program. Hear from Nicole Tang.
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