The Team
We're building a movement of women & girls getting on with practical action to cut carbon pollution. Meet the team - our fabulous staff, board of directors and advisory group.
Our team - Dedicated and passionate
Natalie Isaacs
Founder and CEO
Our fearless leader since founding 1 Million Women in 2009. Nat inspires the uninspirable to make positive changes in their own lives. Under Natalie's leadership 1 Million Women has been built from scratch into what it is today - a powerful beautiful and bold movement of 600,000 women and girls and counting.
Tara Hunt
Director
In Loving memory of our beautiful Tara - 12 Oct,1962 - 28 May, 2017. Tara walked the talk. She never stopped believing in the power of women to change the world and she worked so hard at 1MW mobilising everyone she possibly could. Tara's passion for 1MW will live on through everything we do.
Grace Liley
Social Media Coordinator
Grace has been involved in the fight to solve the climate crisis for the last three years. When not volunteering or working on climate things, she likes walking around art galleries by herself, and will always fail to resist any sparkly object you put in front of her.
Tessa Marano
Social Media Content Creator
Tessa is our content creator. Having a love for writing and a passion for environmental sustainability, she spends a lot of her time discovering creative ways to reduce her own CO2 footprint. In her spare time she loves to cook, make and alter clothes and laze in the sun at the beach.
Bronte Hogarth
Digital Strategy and Communications
Bronte shines as our Digital Strategist. She’s outgoing, dedicated and always ready to lend a helping hand. Fun facts about Bronte? She speaks Portuguese, used to be a rumba dancer and loves plant-based cooking.
Eva Davis-Boermans
Content Creator
Eva is a content creator and resident journalist. She is obsessed with camper-vans and loves taking off for solo road-trips. She can often be found trawling the beach for rubbish, hunting in op shops or surfing.
Samantha Mabbott
Social Media assistant
Sam is a Media and Design student, with a love for native flora and fauna is lucky to live on a bushland block. A special knack for finding second-hand treasures, Sam's always seen wearing her latest market finds, while her house resembles an antique museum.
Anna Gregory
Volunteer and Guest Writer
Anna grew up on a bushland property and lived without mains electricity for the first 12 years of her life. She is a keen gardener, worm-farmer, and jewellery-maker.
Social Media Intern
Maria Nguyen
Maria is a university student who is studying to become a primary teacher. Maria likes to think of ways to teach kids about how they can help prevent climate change. In her spare time, she loves to up-cycle and sew clothes, practise martial arts and read books and blog about sustainable fashion.
Isabella Pham
intern
Isabella has been an eco-activist ever since she was put in charge of emptying out the garbage bins every night, realising just how much waste she was producing. When she's not trying out new vegan recipes with her friends, you can find her surfing YouTube or reading a philosophical book.
Social Media Intern
Maria Juchov
A passionate sustainability greenie, Maria is often found talking about reducing waste and making individual impact. She loves brunch and gardening with her dog.
Our Board - They make it happen
Natalie Isaacs
Founder and CEO
Our fearless leader since founding 1 Million Women in 2009. Nat inspires the uninspirable to make positive changes in their own lives. Under Natalie's leadership 1 Million Women has been built from scratch into what it is today - a powerful beautiful and bold movement of 600,000 women and girls and counting.
Tara Hunt
Director
In Loving memory of our beautiful Tara - 12 Oct,1962 - 28 May, 2017. Tara walked the talk. She never stopped believing in the power of women to change the world and she worked so hard at 1MW mobilising everyone she possibly could. Tara's passion for 1MW will live on through everything we do.
Sam Mostyn
Non-executive Director and Sustainability Adviser & Speaker
Sam Mostyn is a company director and sustainability adviser and speaker. Trained as a lawyer, she has also led teams creating sustainability strategies and programs, incorporating responsible principles into core business practices.
Carolyn Gilchrist
Non-Executive Director With A Focus On Non-Profit, Sports And Property Boards
After 13 years of investment banking, focusing mainly on equity raising, Carolyn left the banking world in 2010 and became a mum. She is passionate about changing the world one action at a time, to make sure she leaves the world in a better place for her daughter. She is on also on a number of private charitable boards.
Our Advisory group - Making a genuine difference
Wendy McCarthy AO
Company Director & Business Public Sector Mentor
Wendy McCarthy is an experienced manager and company director. She currently chairs headspace – Australia National Youth Mental Health Foundation, Circus Oz, McGrath Estate Agents and Pacific Friends of the Global Fund.
Bernie Hobbs
award-winning science writer and broadcaster with ABC
Bernie Hobbs is a firm favourite with audiences for her weekly science spots on ABC radio around the country and has a background in medical research, environmental writing and science teaching.
Lorena Aguilar
Global Senior Gender Adviser for the IUCN
Lorena has created and is part of some of the most influential international gender networks such as The Network of Women Ministers and Leaders of the Environment and the Global and Climate Alliance.
Sheena Polese
Head of Development & Fundraising, St James Ethics Center
Sheena holds vast experience in the commercial and management space across Communications, Sustainability, Corporate Affairs, Marketing and Operations. She also keenly supports women in management and women in business.
Murray Hogarth
Environmental Consultant and director, the 3rd degree
Murray is a business environmentalist and director of the 3rd degree consultancy. A former Environment Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Murray is a longtime speaker, writer and media commentator on climate and sustainability issues.
Julie Hill
Non-executive director and former CEO
Julie Hill has been Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the main board of Lend Lease. She has a passion for a greener and more sustainable built environment. She has long been an advocate for women’s equality in all fields of endeavour.
Anita Jacoby
managing director, ITV Studios Australia
Anita is one of Australia’s most experienced TV executives. She is currently Managing Director of ITV Studios Australia. Anita is also a director of Headspace and actively supports many NFP organisations.
Kim McKay AO
Director & CEO, Australian Museum
Kim McKay is a social & sustainability marketing & communications consultant working in Australia and internationally on social change and awareness campaigns. She is the co-founder of Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World.
Tracey Steggall
Founder and Director, The Horizon Foundation
Tracey Steggall is a seasoned leader in the business and not for profit sectors. She founded The Horizon Foundation in 2004. Tracey supports great people and organisations to achieve outstanding, sustainable results.
Jemma Green
Research Fellow, Curtin University
Jemma has a particular interest in sustainable economics, and her doctoral research is focused on transport, renewable energy, storage, and prefabricated buildings. Jemma has made hundreds of appearances as a commentator on transport, energy and sustainable economics.
Louise O'Halloran
Responsible Investment Specialist
Lou has 15 years’ experience across a range of practice areas – from wealth advice, banking, superannuation and funds management to impact and community investing, philanthropy and renewable energy.
Maria Atkinson
Director, Maria Atkinson Consultancy Pty Ltd
Maria Atkinson is a sustainability strategist, an angel investor with particular focus on impact investments and a company director. Maria has a BAppSc in Environmental Biology and she is a Graduate of the Wharton Executive Programme.
Prof Lesley Hughes
Ecologist and climate change expert
Lesley is an ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University and an expert on the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems. She has over 20 years of researching and communicating the science of climate change.
Tammy Fry Kelly
Director of Fry's & Meat Free Mondays Australia & South Africa
Tammy is a passionate advocate for plant-based nutrition and cruelty-free foods. Her over-a-decade experience at the helm of marketing at Fry’s is guided by nutritional expertise, a love of fitness, love of the environment and outdoor lifestyle.
Romilly Madew
Chief Executive, Green Building Council of Australia
Romilly leads Australia’s peak industry association responsible for creating sustainable buildings and communities. Romilly is known both nationally and internationally as an experienced green building, sustainable communities and cities advocate.
Julia Newbould
Head of The Stella Network, BT Financial Group
Julia is co-founder and head of The Stella Network, an inclusive network founded by BT Financial Group to increase the number of females working as financial advisers, the idea being that diversity is better for everyone. The Stella Network now has more than 1600 members and is recognised as the pre-eminent network for gender change in the financial planning industry.
Dr Dana Cordell
Co-founder, Global Phosphorus Research Initiative
As a global food security expert, Dr Cordell leads and undertakes international and national research projects on sustainable food and resource futures. Her research contributions have led to numerous prestigious recognitions including one of Australia's top science prize, the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research (2012) and a position in the 100 Women of Influence (AFR/Westpac, 2013) and Top 100 Most Influential People (Sydney Magazine, 2012).
Laura Whitford
Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, Asia Pacific – The Nature Conservancy
Laura is passionate about working at the intersection of environment, sustainable development and women’s empowerment. She has worked on international environment and climate change issues in Asia Pacific for over ten years, and has graduate degrees in Environmental Management and Development, Communication, and Psychology. In her role as Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, Asia Pacific at The Nature Conservancy, she co-leads the organisation’s ‘Women In Nature’ Gender and Conservation strategy, and recently co-founded the Women Leaders’ Forum of the six country Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security.
