Tom Dawkins

Tom Dawkins is an experienced social entrepreneur, having founded several non-profits and social enterprises before co-founding StartSomeGood in 2010. Tom is Australian and has lived and worked in Washington DC and San Francisco, returning to Sydney to start his family in 2012. Before StartSomeGood he founded Australian youth non-profit Vibewire, opened the first co-working space in Australia, was the first Digital Communications Director at Ashoka in Washington DC and was the founding Director of the Australian Changemakers Festival. Tom has organized dance parties and film festivals, youth journalism projects and new media conferences, co-working spaces and Burning Man theme camps and has supported numerous non-profits, governments and arts organizations to refine their story and build their community. Tom has been recognized with awards and fellowships from the World Summit Youth Awards, The International Youth Foundation, Nexus Summit and the Social Enterprise Awards and is a global speaker on social innovation and entrepreneurship. He is a Director of the Centre for Social Impact and the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and the ACT (SECNA).