About me

Ellie began her career at Zinc in summer 2018, after graduating from Newcastle University with a BA in Geography & Urban Planning. She has previously worked in the charity sector with organisations that operate to facilitate refugee integration in Greece, The Netherlands, and the UK. She's particularly passionate about social justice, social innovation, and Sheffield United FC. Up the Blades!

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  Mission 2Zinc builds new commercial tech companies that tackle the biggest social challenges in the developed world. We do this through a 9-month full-time programme for 50 creative entrepreneurial individuals (we call them ‘Founders’), who come together at Zinc to find their Co-Founders and build their new businesses from scratch.  Excited by technology, they are driven by the desire to use their skills, experience and energy to have a personal impact on the social issues that really matter to them. Wit
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  Mission 3Do you want to design and build solutions for one of the developed world's toughest challenges? Join Zinc's third mission to transform the quality of later life and drive innovation in the healthy ageing agenda. Today there are one billion people in the world aged over 60. By 2050 there will be two billion. By 2100, there will be three billion. As people are living longer, older people are becoming an increasingly large proportion of the population. By adopting a mission-led approach, we focus
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  Why design thinking and creativity are key to successful startupsAre you wanting to design products and services that have a social impact? Join a discussion on May 30 about how design thinking and creativity are key to building successful mission-led companies. Hear from Zinc Mission 2 Founders, including Melisa Leñero from MAKE, Saar Shai from Gamework, Alejandro Ramos Saavedra from MoodLab and Deborah Coughlin from Studio X. The Zinc Team will also talk about our third Mission to rethink ageing and increase the quality of people's later lives. Zinc are

Work history

Community ManagerZinc VC
Aug 2018London, United KingdomFull Time

Skills

• Event Management
• Teamworking
• Communications Coordination

Education

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BA Geography and PlanningNewcastle University
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom