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JESSICA BROWN

CEO & Founder

Jessica is a social entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of the Warrior Woman Foundation. As a former high school teacher working in South Western Sydney for over a decade, Jessica’s passion has always been assisting the students at risk of falling through the cracks of the education and welfare systems. For over 32 years Jessica has been an advocate for the protection of children and is driven to do all she can to advance young Australian women in all areas of their lives. After leaving teaching, Jessica founded the Life Changing Experiences Foundation in 2003, which she led as CEO for 17 years. Through its multi-award winning SISTER2sister program, Jessica has helped change the lives of hundreds of teenage girls in NSW and VIC.

Jessica’s newest venture, the Warrior Woman Foundation (founded in 2020), is a national holistic support model assisting under-represented vulnerable young Australian women to become resilient, independent, and capable of taking their place in the world. Her goal is for every Australian woman to achieve independence through financial wellbeing, and to increase the financial literacy rates of young women in Australia so that they have the confidence to take charge of earning and managing their own money, plan for future economic security and protect themselves from financial abuse.

Since 2003, Jessica has been recognised for multiple awards for her outstanding work in the community including the Pride of Australia Awards, the Australian of the Year Awards and the NSW Woman of the Year Awards.

In 2024, Jessica gained a position on the Serious Offenders Review Council, an independent body who makes recommendations to the NSW Commissioner of Corrective Services on the progression of the state’s most serious offenders. Her lived experience as a homicide survivor ensures that decisions made are done through the lens of a victim of crime.

Jessica is regularly profiled in the media and is asked to comment on a wide range of topics including youth issues, mentoring and philanthropy, as well as advocating for the rights and protection of children, and the advancement of women.

We provide a safe and welcoming space for young women to share, learn, heal and grow. Each young woman is connected with a mentor as well as a network of diverse community-minded women who provide ongoing support and share their life experiences, resources and opportunities:

  • Connection to a safe, stable, and socially inclusive network of female role models to turn to for advice and ongoing support for the duration of the six-month program.
  • Connection to a non-judgmental group of young women who are facing similar challenges.
  • Connection to Kindred Warrior Peers, young women who have experienced challenges in life and have gone on to achieve life success.
  • Weekly one-to-one mentoring sessions with a safe mentor.

We teach young women the life skills they need to succeed in everyday life. Our “teach a young woman to fish” approach gives them support and guidance at every step, knowing that true empowerment comes from them learning to do things for themselves. In particular, we focus on financial literacy and job readiness:

  • Life-skills workshops to build self-reliance.
  • A six-week Financial Literacy program (in partnership with MoneyGirl).
  • A four-week Job Readiness program.
  • Assistance in gaining and retaining meaningful employment.
  • Access to a range of vocational skills scholarships (e.g., Code Like a Girl) and internships.

Many young women experience trauma which negatively impacts their confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. We support and nurture the trauma healing process in safe psycho-educational workshops facilitated by experts. In these sessions, young women learn to engage with self-compassion, and to soften and contain threat-based emotions, such as fear and anxiety, anger, shame and self-criticism.