About our studio

As the strategic engine at DrawHistory, Angel facilitates discovery workshops and design sprints, conducts stakeholders consultations and manages project governance. A trusted advisor, she has held leadership positions and continues to advise for organizations such as Perth College Foundation, World Vision, the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community and UN Women on fundraising, donor engagement, brand-building and grassroots campaigning.

Founding DrawHistory, a social impact design consultancy and one of the first B Corps in Western Australia, Jeffrey has consulted 150+ mission-driven organizations such as UNICEF Australia, Population Services International and the Centre for Social Impact. He has also been recognized as a Forbes Under 30 Listmaker and a Young Australian of the Year nominee. Jeffrey currently helps lead the world’s largest social change platform, Change.org, in the world’s busiest region in Asia. Prior to that, he managed global communications for Google’s Next Billion Users, their emerging markets team. Working with country leads, he covered regions such as APAC, LATAM and SSA, to execute on PR strategies with them.

Kosta is our Head of Community Pratice who provides our team with specialist advice and support in social research and community engagement. He also leads Counterbrace, a specialist practice dedicated to creating spaces for community conversations about the issues that matter. As a researcher, practitioner and writer in the field of community polarization and resilience in Australia and abroad, he has amassed over 10 years of experience in policy, research, community service and private industry roles. Clients have included Google, YouTube, Facebook, the United Nations and various government agencies to address the myriad of factors that contribute to extremism and polarization in civil society.

Essie is a brand strategist whose career has taken her to international consultancies such as Dentsu McGarryBowen and Sid Lee in New York, working on some of the world’s biggest brands. This includes Yahoo, Pepsico, and Crayola. Having navigated her 8+ year career through Australia and the United States, where she took up her post as Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Brand Manager to help with its insights-gathering and rebrand process in local, country-specific contexts, she’s now back home in Perth.

Meredith is a business and communications practitioner whose work has taken her to London and Sydney, where she worked for 11 years at Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s largest media companies at the time (owner of Sydney Morning Herald and The Age), as its Agency Group Director. She also led comms at the Young Lives Matter Foundation, a suicide prevention initiative with The University of Western Australia. Beyond her work, Meredith is passionate about media, journalism, politics and history, and had previously undertaken her thesis on 1970s Aboriginal welfare.

Tres  is a visual identity designer and creative lead who has led creative advertising, digital media initiatives and branding projects for brands such as FIFA, Elevation Church, and the Houston Texans. He’s a thinker and design-advocate with a progressive perspective of culture & aesthetics, having co-founded pop-up creative agency for good, Good Measure, and on the board of AIGA Houston. Deeply in tune with cultural events and internet news, Tres shines brightest when he’s conceptualizing brands end to end — from visualizing an idea to pitching and launching it with multidisciplinary teams.

With 10+ years industry experience, Kira is a marketing and project management specialist with a love of writing and a passion for good food. Currently studying towards a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact at The University of Western Australia, she has dedicated her career to celebrating the people and businesses doing good in her hometown. Kira has coordinated digital marketing and led PR with Tourism WA, City of Perth, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).

Angie has 12+ years of public relations, marketing and communications experience, including a handful of years of senior management experience in agencies in Toronto and Sydney. Having played an active role across NGOs such as Greenpeace, World Wildlife Foundation and the Green Party, and managing comms projects for brands such as Cadbury, Angie is now based in Perth, focused on forwarding the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through purpose-led organizations.

Having been immersed in the world of market research for almost a decade, Amira has led business development and market intelligence efforts for global agencies such as Kantar and Populix. Amira is currently part of our inaugural APAC team headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she identifies opportunities for impact and shares fresh insights with our partners in the region. Did we mention she’s also juggling a Masters in Gender Studies? In her moments of R&R, Amira spends time with her three children, jams to K-pop, and binges on classic Guillermo del Toro films.

Sheilla is a researcher whose work has led her to research how AI discriminates against women and feminine language, and co-found Generation:Politics, a nonprofit that makes policy-making accessible for young people. She is a PhD Scholar at the University of Melbourne under the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics and has previously worked closely with NGOs and the Government to make an equitable future for society. When Sheilla isn’t researching, you’ll find her reading, baking, playing musical instruments, or singing (and maybe drinking a Scotch whisky or two)!

Creative first and traveller second, Morgane’s passport as a designer extends beyond her hometown in Paris. Having navigated her 10-year career through France and the UK, she’s now getting settled here in Perth for the long haul. Morgane’s been around the block as an independent Illustrator and Art Director, with her work most recently emanating at Yagan Tower. A true Work-From-Home advocate, you’ll find her packing her lunch, even when she’s not in the office!

Abi is curious about everything design — exploring illustration styles and dabbling in human-centred design. She’s been put through the paces in roles with The Brand Agency and Lateral Aspect and was previously an AGDA WA Council Member. At DrawHistory, Abi is part of the design team and has developed brands for organizations such as Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre, WA Department of Health, and NSW Government.

A yogi, traveller and designer all at once, Tat is a creative whose work has taken her from the Netherlands to Australia. Though Tat has been a graphic designer for Dutch airlines, KLM, to digital agency OKMG in Perth, she’s an emerging generalist at heart and appreciates human-centred design practice as much as compelling user experience. Here at DrawHistory, Tat has worked with organizations such as Edith Cowan University and Core Vision.

Ynah is a web developer with over 8 years of industry experience. She has extensive knowledge in WordPress, PHP, HTML5, CSS and responsive design and is currently learning React, GraphQL and VueJS. She moved to Vancouver from the Philippines in 2011 and is loving her life in Canada. If she’s not in Vancouver or her hometown in the Philippines, she’s probably galavanting around a new city. Ynah also loves to bake and has decided to try to bake something at least once a month.

Jade is an Earth-based designer & strategist. Human. Multifaceted designer. Lover of an ‘underdog’. Jade’s passion lies in painting the big picture through blending design, user research, and business strategy – in service of human connection. She’s worked with companies, nonprofits, philanthropists and governments to craft meaningful products and services around the world. Her background includes product & design at Airbnb and IDEO.org. Prior to design, Jade worked in international aid & development managing USAID contracts abroad.

Batsheva is a communications expert whose career has taken her from BBC as a Development Producer, to a Practitioner In Residence at University of Oxford, and Head of Communications and Public Affairs for Google’s Android, Education and Accessibility initiatives in the Asia-Pacific. Batsheva now leads Better Futures, a consultancy that transforms bold vision into simple, inspiring stories.

Einav is a Creative Director passionate exploring how businesses can help drive positive impact. She currently works as Global Creative Director at Uber leading social impact and Uber Eats in EMEA and APAC. Einav has worked with both multi-million dollar global brands, and pro-bono initiatives with $0 budget. Her work has been recognized in Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clios, LIA, Effie and the Webbys amongst others, as well as publications such as BBC, CNN, the New York Times, NBC News and she was recognized as top 30 agency creatives by AdWeek.