Sarah Moran

Sarah Moran is CEO and co-founder of Girl Geek Academy, a movement to help inspire one million women into technology and launch their own startups by 2025. 

Sarah established Girl Geek Academy in 2014 alongside her four fellow co-founders Lisy Kane, Tammy Butow, Amanda Watts and April Staines, as a place to learn, connect and inspire change.

Girl Geek Academy hosts programs for girls from the age of five right through to 95+ to inspire a generational shift in the way political leaders, schools, young girls and professional women think about and practice technology.

Girl Geek Academy has trained more than 1000 teachers in #MissMakesCode,the world’s first hackathon for girls aged five to eight. That equates to a reach of more than 10,000 students in Australia now exposed to STEM education from the age of five. 

Girl Geek Academy is also behind Australia's first all-women hackathon, #SheHacks, and Australia's first all-women makerfest, #SheMakes. An AnthillSmart 100 finalist, it partnered with the Victorian government to deliver ahackathon tackling family violence in Australia and launched the world’s largestall-women incubator. 

Most recently the team created Girl Geeks, a four-book series published by Penguin Random House's Puffin line to get young women who love tech into popular culture.  

In 2018, Sarah won the Australian Women’s Weekly Woman of the Future award in the Entrepreneur and Business category and was awarded the QUT Young Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alumni Award. Sarah was also a finalist for Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year 2018.

In 2018 Sarah joined the Channel 9 Today Show experts, regularly appearing in features on gender equality and STEM issues for the popular breakfast TV show. 

An active community contributor, Sarah works with the Leonardo group and Science Gallery Melbourne, is a member of the Victorian Minister's Advisory Council for Gender Equality, an ambassador for Brisbane City Council’s youth program, Visible Ink, and is a member of the Future of Work Summit advisory board. She also sits on the Vic Health Youth Taskforce and is a VicHealth champion. 

Sarah also sits on the RMIT Games Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) and the Melbourne International Games Week Steering Committee. 




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