Cindy Carpenter

Cindy is a Director of The Bread & Butter Project, Australia’s first social enterprise artisan bakery, investing 100% of profits to provide training and employment pathways for refugees and asylum seekers. She also leads the advisory groups supporting three other refugee-focused social enterprises; CommUnity Construction, FoodLab and Aunty’s Ginger Tonic and co-founded the Work-Integrated-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 complementary pathways such as skilled visas), is a Board Director for Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia and a member of the Governance Group for the Settlement Council of Australia’s ‘Road to Belonging’ national strategy.