Just finished my paper for the SEWF - Social Enterprise World Forum Academic Symposium. It's on the theory & evidence underpinning Community Capacity Builders new venture:Centre for Autistic Social Entrepreneurship. I'll upload the paper to this website after the Symposium autisticentrepreneur.com.au #ActuallyAutistic #socent Catalyst 2030 Emily Bourke MLC

Huge week co-chairing Complexity & Systems Change Stream, moderating final panel & delivering autistic social enterprise paper at Suz Fuger Academic Symposium wearing my UniSA_CMVI hat. Then moderating global best practice of #socent networks at main SEWF wearing Catalyst 2030 hat.

Brilliant performance by autistic actor Leo Long in new Netflix film 'Used To Be Famous'. So refreshing to have an autistic character played by an #actuallyautistic person. vimeo.com/752442754?embe…

My goodness!! "A review of autism-related news published in Australian print media from 2016 to 2018 found only 16 of 1,351 stories included firsthand perspectives from autistic people." 🤦‍♀️

Looking forward to discussing how Autistic Social Entrepreneurs are natural systems thinkers & social innovators, & how the the social enterprise sector can support autistic-led social enterprise at this Catalyst 2030 & ASENA (Alliance of Social Enterprise Networks AU) event on Tuesday. tinyurl.com/4fk4kfw8

Have set up a definition for the hashtag #AutisticOwnedEnterprise. "An Autistic owned enterprise is a business or social enterprise that is 50% or more Autistic-owned or controlled". Will be nice to know which #socent & businesses are #actuallyautistic owned or controlled.

Thank you SEWF - Social Enterprise World Forum for your continuous support of autistic owned and led social enterprise - and for this opportunity to be interviewed. 🙏