Staff and Board
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Staff strength
Senior management
Corinna Lim
Corinna is AWARE's first Executive Director. She has championed the rights of women for close to 30 years, advocating on issues such as gender-equal workplaces, gender violence and greater support for single parents, older women and family caregivers. Prior to joining AWARE, Corinna practised law; she also founded and served as the CEO of an IT company.
Anisha Joseph
A social worker by qualification, Anisha Joseph studied Criminology and Justice at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India and worked with the NGO Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative on prison reform. Anisha also studied "Mental Disability Law in practice" at Central European University and worked with prisoners with mental illness for her master’s thesis. She has a B.Sc (Hons) Physics, and worked in Human Resources for corporations and NGOs before joining the social sector full time.
Shailey Hingorani
Research and Communications
Shailey Hingorani is AWARE’s Head of Advocacy, Research and Communications. Previously, she worked on women's rights and child rights with the Open Society Foundations, Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Indian Mission to the United Nations, Save the Children and the Bloomberg Initiative. Shailey received a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University. She also holds M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in political science and a B.A. in Journalism.
Renee Tan
Renee Tan is a seasoned business development and marketing specialist with more than 15 years of experience in sponsorship, fundraising, partnership development and marketing. Renee was instrumental in helping companies such as the Singapore International Film Festival, Pangdemonium Theatre Company and Singapore Repertory Theatre create successful sales and marketing campaigns, cultivate corporate prospects and grow sponsorship revenue. She is passionate about women's rights and gender equality.
Corporate governance
Role of the Board
AWARE’s Board is committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance and accountability to its stakeholders. Our stakeholders include the regulators, the clients we serve, our supporters (donors, members and volunteers), our partners, staff and the community at large.
The Board decides on the major strategic directions of AWARE, allocates financial resources, provides legal and financial oversight, reviews the performance of management, and ensures that the organisation serves its mission in accordance with its values. The Board meets every month to carry out its functions.
No Board members are remunerated for their Board services.
Read more 2020 Board Information here. For a list of AWARE’s Board committees, click here.
Our Board
Margaret Thomas
Margaret Thomas held senior editing positions at The Business Times, The Singapore Monitor and TODAY, and was in the founding team of AsiaOne, over her nearly three decades in the media. In 1984/85, Margaret was a founder member of AWARE. Over the last three decades, she has served on many of its committees, and has been a member of its board since 2009. In 2003 she was a founder member of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2).
Penelope Shone
Penny Shone was born in New Zealand. She has been a resident of Singapore since 1985, and an AWARE member for 20 years. Her career has unfolded in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, she led international public affairs and communications for General Electric across 150 countries. Prior to that, she was a managing director at Citigroup for 12 years, leading the company’s public affairs, communications and citizenship strategies across Asia Pacific. This included the supervision of 20,000 volunteers and $18 million in annual grants to NGOs.
Jean Low
Jean Low is currently CEO of 1880, a private club focused on building community. Previously, she was Director of Finance at United World College of South East Asia, CFO at Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust and Head of Risk Management at Mapletree Investments. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. An AWARE member since 2009 and board member since 2016, she cares deeply about education, social justice and gender equality.
Elisa Kang
Elisa Kang spent 13 years in wealth management advising clients on asset allocation, family office and impact investments, before pursuing a Master’s in Counselling at Monash University in 2014. From 2016-18, Elisa worked as a part-time counsellor at Singapore Management University. She began her involvement in gender justice in 2007, volunteering in a microfinance consultancy in India and an NGO fighting violence against women and the trafficking of women across the border in Nepal. Elisa has been involved with AWARE since 2016: as a trainer with Catalyse, a counsellor, a volunteer Helpliner and a project manager for the Women’s Helpline expansion. She is also a full-time caregiver and family manager.
Aarathi Arumugan
Aarathi Arumugam is an entrepreneur who is passionate about connecting communities through causes close to her heart. Her career trajectory has taken her along different paths, from corporations to volunteer organisations to start-ups—experiences that she considers her personal MBA. Since becoming a member in 2009, Aarathi has volunteered with AWARE as a trainer, educating and raising awareness about workplace sexual harassment and comprehensive sexuality education. In 2019, she also conceptualised and executed a series of events called Kitchen Movements, to raise awareness and funds for Daughters of Tomorrow.
Zheng Huifen
Zheng Huifen has been an AWARE member since 2009 and is now a life member. She has volunteered with AWARE in various capacities, including the legal clinic, Helpliner training in Mandarin and updates to AWARE’s Constitution. Apart from AWARE, Huifen was a committee member of the Humanist Society (Singapore) between 2012 and 2017. At HSS, she helped to create a safe space for people identifying as atheist, agnostic, freethinking or secular. A corporate lawyer with a technology and payments focus, Huifen is also a founding member of the pro bono arm of the Association of Corporate Counsel in Singapore.
Asiyah Arif
Asiyah Arif is a specialist dispute resolution lawyer who acts for clients in sensitive high-value commercial disputes and advises on employment matters. Asiyah led AWARE’s SHOut! Campaign to lobby for greater protection against workplace sexual harassment, and its We Can! Campaign to change social attitudes towards violence against women. Asiyah is committed to elevating the voices and stories of minority women in Singapore, and uplifting women from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Jasmine Ng
Jasmine Ng is a filmmaker and educator who has executive-produced and directed award-winning shorts, feature films and international broadcast work. She is President of SAMPP, the Singapore Association for Motion Picture Professionals. Jasmine has also conceptualised many cross-disciplinary works for social causes, including civic awareness projects such as IPS PRISM for the Institute of Policy Studies, and the BOTH SIDES, NOW installation project, which explored death and dying with the support of Lien Foundation.
Wynthia Goh
Wynthia Goh is Head of NEXT Digital at NCS. Previously, she was Head of Omnichannel at NTUC Enterprise, and before that led regional digital teams for Nokia, eBay, Avaya, SAP and Aviva, with roles in product management, business development, venture investment, digital strategy and marketing. Wynthia has a Master’s in Public Policy from the State University of New York and is a Fulbright Scholar. An AWARE member since 2009, Wynthia is also on the Women in Fintech subcommittee of the Singapore Fintech Association.