Joanna is an experienced feminist leader with a strong track record across governance, policy, research and advocacy. As Director of Knowledge Translation and Equality Insights at IWDA, she provides strategic oversight of the organisation’s research, ethics, and feminist movement-building frameworks, while leading knowledge creation, and policy engagement to advance gender equality. She has played a key role in advancing decolonial research practices and enhancing local-to-global movement influencing. Previously, she held executive roles at ACFID, overseeing sector-wide research and advocacy on sustainable development, civil society and humanitarian policy. Joanna contributes to public debate through her writing and as co-founder and co-convenor of the Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition.

Joanne has been involved with Equality Insights and its predecessor, the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM), since its inception in 2008. Joanne has worked across civil society, academia, as a consultant, and with the Australian Government including senior roles with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Office for the Status of Women, and AusAID. She has combined research, policy, collaboration and activism to contribute to disarmament and peace, reconciliation, international policy, international development and gender equality, with a sustained focus on improving measurement of poverty and inequality to make its gendered dimensions visible.

Amelia is responsible for overall program management including, stakeholder engagement and coordination of project activities and budgets. Prior to joining IWDA, Amelia worked in the international development sector on gender programming across Latin America, Africa and the Pacific, with a focus on gender equality, safeguarding, gender-based violence prevention, gender-sensitive WASH and positive relationships for youth. Most recently, from 2016 to 2020, Amelia worked in Vanuatu managing NGO gender programs. In her spare time, Amelia enjoys trying to make plants grow in her garden and swimming in the ocean.

Gayatri is the Data and Partnerships Manager for IWDA’s Equality Insights program. Prior to joining IWDA, Gayatri worked in international development, government and the community services sector in various program evaluation, research and policy roles. Gayatri has a PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, with a focus on international development. In her spare time, Gayatri likes to cook, read and spend time in nature with her husband and dogs.

Yolanda contributes at IWDA to the implementation and methodological updates of survey tools, as well as quantitative analysis of the Equal Insights data. Yolanda has extensive experience in government and research settings in data methods and analysis. Prior to joining IWDA, she worked at the university research centre, Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre designing quantitative tools to explore peace building and women’s political participation, misogyny and violent extremism, and sexual and gender-based violence in conflict contexts. In addition, she has previously worked for the Colombian Government as an Advisor on poverty reduction and the prevention of teenage pregnancy. In her spare time, Yolanda enjoys hiking and connecting with nature.

Lucy is responsible for program administration and reporting including budget tracking, monitoring, evaluation and learning. She supports the Equality Insights team with contracting, legal review and stakeholder engagement. She has a degree in Development Studies and over 20 years’ experience in the development sector. Previous roles include working with the fundraising team at IWDA, the Australian Government, CARE Australia in Cambodia and the World Health Organization in Geneva.

Pi (she/her) leads strategic communications for Equality Insights. Passionate about storytelling for social change, Pi brings nearly two decades of experience leading comms, advocacy, and development initiatives across the UN, NGOs and the private sector. A former director at US-based advocacy firm RALLY, Pi’s worked with brands, foundations, not-for-profits and coalitions around the world to drive impact on issues from the climate crisis to racial justice, gender equality, and education equity.  Pi’s love of big ideas and getting things done has seen her advise celebrities and brands on philanthropy, drive communications for UNICEF’s peacebuilding and education programme across 14 countries, and lead comms for the IRC in Pakistan and UN Women in China. Pi finds joy in connection, nature and her young, and disproportionately loud, children.