About Angelique
Angelique is a social entrepreneur who has committed her career to ending gender-based violence in Australia. At 19, Angelique co-founded the not-for-profit Consent Labs; which ten years later now employs 52 people, generates over $2.6m in revenue, educates more than 200,000 Australians, has featured in national media and has helped shape national policy. Violence is evolving faster than policy can respond, and Angelique is concerned that Australia is not investing or innovating at the scale that the problem demands and sees technology as a crucial part of the answer. She will study an MBA at Stanford which will enhance her knowledge ofsocial-innovation, entrepreneurship and technology expertise, and more broadly expose her to an impact-investing market and environment in the US that is far more mature than Australia’s. Upon her return, she aims to start her next company which will address technology-facilitated abuse (where devices, platforms and AI are used to surveil, control and harm) which is one of the fastest-evolving threats to Australian women. She believes that only a technology-led response can match the rate and scale of the harm, rather than the policies and regulations that are being out-paced. Later, Angelique hopes to actively contribute to the maturation of Australia’s impact-investing market and incentivise private markets to invest funding in social ventures.
