Tom Dawkins

Tom founded youth organisations at high school and university before establishing Vibewire Youth Media and Arts Inc. to create expression opportunities for young Australians through media and arts in 2000, whilst still at university. Vibewire projects including the Reelife Short Film Festival, Interface Anthology of Youth Writing, sQuareOne incubator space and electionTracker, which sent youth reports out on the campaign trail during two Federal elections. He's assisted numerous organisations with program design and communications strategies and for five years organised electronic music events in Sydney under the name 'circuitry'.
In 2003 Vibewire was awarded the NSW Non-Profit Microbusiness of the Year Award and in 2005 received the World Summit Youth Award for Community Engagement as part of the World Summit on the Informaiton Society. In 2007 Tom was given the Future Summit Leadership Award at the Future Summit, organised by Australian Davos Connections and a Global YouthActionNet Fellowship from the International Youth Foundation.
In April 2008 Tom moved on from Vibewire and spent time traveling before being appointed Digital Marketing Strategist of Ashoka - Innovators for the Public in Washington, DC. Here his focus is on utilizing social technologies to inspire people to become changemakers.