🫧 Sarah Moran

Time Out is profiling the incredible people who are shaping the future of Melbourne in this Future Shaper series. We have asked a panel of esteemed judges comprising Senator Lidia Thorpe (Greens Senator for Victoria), Claire Ferres Miles (CEO of Sustainability Victoria) Pat Nourse (creative director, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival), Simon Abrahams (creative director and CEO of Melbourne Fringe), Peter Tullin (co-founder and CEO of Remix Summits) and Kate Vinot (chair of Zoos Victoria) to help… Show more

Time Out is profiling the incredible people who are shaping the future of Melbourne in this Future Shaper series. We have asked a panel of esteemed judges comprising Senator Lidia Thorpe (Greens Senator for Victoria), Claire Ferres Miles (CEO of Sustainability Victoria) Pat Nourse (creative director, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival), Simon Abrahams (creative director and CEO of Melbourne Fringe), Peter Tullin (co-founder and CEO of Remix Summits) and Kate Vinot (chair of Zoos Victoria) to help us identify the people and organisations changing the future of Melbourne in the areas of food and drink; arts; community and culture; civics; and sustainability. In community, one such person is Sarah Moran, the CEO and co-founder of Girl Geek Academy. Show less

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-08-gi-100-game-changers-part-two

In this GI 100 series we will profile 100 individuals and organisations making progress in vital areas like diversity, accessibility, charity, mental health, progressive politics, lifting emerging markets, uniting communities, and more -- people whose stories can show us how this industry can be that better and more inclusive place.

Like many other people profiled for Game Changers, Lisy Kane and Sarah… Show more

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-08-gi-100-game-changers-part-two

In this GI 100 series we will profile 100 individuals and organisations making progress in vital areas like diversity, accessibility, charity, mental health, progressive politics, lifting emerging markets, uniting communities, and more -- people whose stories can show us how this industry can be that better and more inclusive place.

Like many other people profiled for Game Changers, Lisy Kane and Sarah Moran were inspired to act because they didn't see people like themselves represented in the industry.

"We founded Girl Geek Academy in 2014, when our five co-founders Sarah, Lisy, Tammy, April and Amanda found ourselves looking around at tech events and thinking... where are my mates?" Kane and Moran explain. "We are women who wanted something like Girl Geek Academy to exist, so we built it."

"Girl Geek Academy is a movement teaching one million women technology skills by 2025. We increase technical aspirations in young girls and women from ages 5 to 95 through coding, making, entrepreneurship, game development, startup skills and more.

"We partner with teachers, parents, corporate leaders and governments and we all work together to see women and girls succeed in tech."

Girl Geek Academy is already well on its way to that admirable target, with more than 10,000 people having taken one of its programs. Among the myriad activities Girl Geek Academy creates and arranges are workshops for young girls to learn how to code and create their own games (#MissMakesCode), hackathons for women and non-binary people (#SheHacks), and Australia's first all women and non-binary game jam (#SheHacksGames).

"The best way to support us is to run one of our programs and get involved," Kane and Moran say. "We have offerings for people no matter what stage they are in their career. You can find out more about running one of our programs and joining our community on our website." Show less

http://thecusp.com.au/20-young-australians-on-the-cusp-of-greatness/1407

The thing about greatness is that, despite everyone wanting it, many of us never think we’ll achieve it. It’s considered a lofty title, reserved for those larger-than-life figures changing the world; the likes of Martin Luther King, Amelia Earhart, Stephen Hawking or Malala Yousafzai. But we believe that greatness comes in many forms.
That’s why we’ve decided to pull together a list of young Australians that may… Show more

http://thecusp.com.au/20-young-australians-on-the-cusp-of-greatness/1407

The thing about greatness is that, despite everyone wanting it, many of us never think we’ll achieve it. It’s considered a lofty title, reserved for those larger-than-life figures changing the world; the likes of Martin Luther King, Amelia Earhart, Stephen Hawking or Malala Yousafzai. But we believe that greatness comes in many forms.
That’s why we’ve decided to pull together a list of young Australians that may not be household names yet, but who are doing incredible things. We met these game-changers, innovators and all-around legends at Junket, a weekend of discussion and debate about Australia’s future put on by our sister site Junkee last year.
The 20 people here represent a broad range of cultures, experience and fields – from an activist and model using fashion to enact social change, to an engineer with a passion for youth empowerment and motorsport. Many of them have already achieved greatness in their own fields, but those achievements have largely been unsung – until now.

http://thecusp.com.au/20-young-australians-on-the-cusp-of-greatness/1407 Show less