The Alice Anderson Fund backed women founders when they needed it most, but it’s now under threat
A founder reflects on Alice Anderson’s legacy, women founders supported by the fund, and the power of building your own supportive community.
Alice Anderson opened Australia’s first all-women motor garage in 1920. She couldn’t get a bank loan. She couldn’t own a car in her own name. She did it anyway.
More than a century later, I am still having to be Alice Anderson. And today I want to talk about the people who made that a little less lonely.
I am a recovering corporate lawyer and the child of immigrants. English is not my first language. I have spent my career in rooms where I was the only person who looked like me (or had a surname as long as mine), working twice as hard to be taken half as seriously.
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