Meet the Collab4Good Team
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Amy Orange - Co-Founder & Managing Director
Amy is an award-winning social enterprise strategist, thought leader, and impact collaborator with a passion for applying commercial practices and innovative models to solve complex social challenges. Amy’s particular areas of passion include women’s economic empowerment, social enterprise, and supporting women caught up in the justice system. Amy is the Program Manager for Peers4Good, Social Procurement Lead for Social Traders, former Founder of Harvest Fair, and sits on the board of directors for Infoxchange Group. Amy was a Women in Innovation Award winner in 2017 and was recognised as one of InDaily’s Top 40 Under 40 business leaders in South Australia in 2018.
Amy’s superpower is in her big ideas and ability to execute - nothing is impossible! Her project management skills and passion for social impact make for a powerful combo!
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Moira Were AM - Co-Founder & Systems Director
Moira is a distinguished social entrepreneur and advocate for women and people who are disadvantaged, bringing an innovative and inclusive approach to business, government and not-for-profits in Australia and around the world. Moira is passionate about closing the gender investment gap, and applying a gender lens to entrepreneurship and innovation in startups and social enterprises. Moira is the Mayor of the City of Onkaparinga, Founder of Hen House Coop and Chooks SA, and was awarded as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her significant contribution to the South Australian community.
Moira’s super power is her ability to create places and space to bring generations of experience together for learning and collective action. Her facilitation skills and singing voice are pretty amazing too!
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Sarah Gun - Co-Founder & Creative Director
Sarah is an international multi-award-winning innovator, disruptor, thought leader and crusader for a socially equitable world. Sarah is renowned for her ideas and achievements in setting new standards for socially and environmentally sustainable events and initiatives in South Australia, in particular creating jobs for people who face complex barriers to employment. Sarah is Founder and CEO of GOGO events and GOGO Foundation, a SheEO Australia Venture 2019, Westpac Social Change Fellow 2017, and winner of the Australia Day Inspiring Women’s Award 2018.
Sarah’s superpower is her ability to inspire - she brings her passion, big vision and authentic self in everything that she does. Her sense of style, humour and interpretive dance skills are a joy for us all!
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Arianna Watson - Impact Director and Program Manager
Arianna is an optimistic social entrepreneur, passionate about supporting individuals to question, explore and act on their potential for creating social and environmental impact. With a background in community and international development, she now works at the intersection of business and social purpose. Arianna is a co-founder of Think Enough, and works as a facilitator, coach and impact strategist, getting involved in various projects that sit in an alternative, more inclusive and regenerative economy.
Her superpower is bringing people together and building genuine relationships to collaborate for impact. She’s also a self-declared spreadsheet nerd which does help on the project management side!
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Tracey Rigney - Peers4Good Program Support
Tracey is a Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga woman who graduated from the GOGO Foundation's Inclusive Work Program in 2023. As a First Nations woman with lived experience of incarceration, Tracey provides valuable program support with a lived experience and cultural advisory lens to help our team best support women on their release to reconnect back into social, civic and economic through partnership with the Collab4Good network of social enterprises and service providers. Tracey has a Certificate III in Community Services and has commenced her Diploma.
Tracey’s superpower is her lived experience and her big beautiful heart, as well as her knowledge of the cultural needs of First Nations women which can make all the difference in supporting these women to overcome the many systemic barriers in place.
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Mary-Jane (MJ) Durbidge - Peers4Good Peer Coordinator
Mary-Jane (MJ) is a passionate advocate for supporting and empowering people to navigate the maze of services and supports to find the right opportunities that will help people to rebuild their lives. Having personally experienced life in prison, MJ brings a deep understanding of the challenges that individuals face during and after incarceration. Through her involvement as a lived experience advisor for courses such as Drug and Alcohol Services SA and New Roads, as well as a collaboration with Department of Human Services to introduce parenting courses in the prison system, MJ brings her valuable insights and experience to support women exiting prison to give them the best chance at successful rehabilitation and reintegration back into the community.
MJ’s superpower is her lived experience and incredible empathy and compassion towards others. Her determination and persistence to help find solutions and empower people to build a better life for themselves is remarkable.