Cindy Carpenter

Cindy is Ambassador and former Chair of The Bread & Butter Project, Australia’s first social enterprise artisan bakery, investing 100% of profits to provide training and employment pathways for refugees. She also led the advisory groups supporting three other refugee-focused social enterprises; CommUnity Construction, FoodLab and Aunty’s Ginger Tonic, and co-founded the Work-Integration-Social-Enterprise Hub within Social Enterprise Australia. She is also co-founder and Chair of the Global Refugee Academy (an NGO that trains and supports refugees to access university scholarships and skilled visas), and is a Board Director for Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia. Cindy is a member of the SEWF Social Investment Working Group.