Katy Shorthouse works in the Funds and Client Services Team as the Senior Coordinator at Australian Communities Foundation, providing support to ACF Fundholders, managing special projects, and streamlining systems and processes.

I’m passionate about…

I am passionate about subverting the dominant paradigm. Many of our cultural constructs, including humans as the centre of the story and economics as a primary societal metric, are damaging. Deconstructing these through systems change, new social structures, and relationships with the more-than-human world can open the way for a better world.

My experience

My career has included guiding treks in Tasmania and bike tours in Bolivia, opening a bar in Peru, authoring for Lonely Planet, and running my own tour business for 15 years, among many other things. Guiding people through complex systems that make their lives and the world a better place is my perfect job, so I’m very happy to be part of the Funds and Clients Services team at ACF.