by Elise Stephenson | Aug 11, 2014 | Community Engagement, Uncategorized
Last weekend, from the 8-10 of August, saw the launch of the inaugural Impact Youth Social Enterprise Conference. 120 of Brisbane’s best and brightest 16-25 year olds gathered at the State Library of Queensland to hear from Australian and Social Entrepreneur of...
by Elise Stephenson | Jun 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
One month ago I received a very exciting email from the Australian Government stating I had won an inaugural New Colombo Plan Scholarship. Needless to say, it has been a difficult thing to keep secret for the past while, but this week myself and my fellow Griffith...
by Elise Stephenson | Oct 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
“I don’t want to get involved.” “It’s not my problem.” “It was probably their fault anyway, what could I do?” When we talk about violence and abuse, maybe these are some of the things we think of first. Why? This weekend...
by Elise Stephenson | Jul 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
So this week I presented at the Enactus National Conference and Competition in Sydney for the Griffith University Enactus team. As in my previous post, we did a great job and through Enactus have positively impacted on thousands of lives. It is events like these that...