Esther Foreman (She/Her)
Founder & CEO
Top skills: Leadership, innovation, strategy, social enterprise, and movement building
Favourite thing to do at work: Spot new opportunities, inspire innovation, and ensure everything we do stays true to our vision, mission, and values.
Work history: Esther has over 20 years’ experience across the not-for-profit, social enterprise and business sectors, leading award-winning campaigns, supporting enterprise, and building strong teams. In 2013, she founded The Social Change Agency to combine organising, technology, communications and social enterprise. She is a Clore Social Fellow (2011), Winston Churchill Fellow (2012), and SSE Fellow (2013), and was named among the Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise. Esther also founded The Social Change Nest, The Young Trustees Movement and the Graduate Journal of Social Science.
Interests outside of work: A devoted fan of Ethiopian food
Aimee Dorsett Browne (She/Her)
Head of Community and Impact
Top skills: Community organising, social innovation, grant making, relationship building, and communications
Favourite thing to do at work: Connect with and support the inspiring organisations across SCN’s portfolio, helping them grow and make an impact.
Work history: Aimee has over 10 years of experience working at the intersection of community organising, social innovation, and grant-making. She began her career in France with a startup social enterprise specialising in solutions journalism. After returning to London following the Brexit vote, she spent two years supporting grassroots equality organisations to strengthen their communications and campaigning capacity. She later transitioned into grant-making, helping micro NGOs across England build social enterprise activities and providing wrap-around learning and mentoring support.
Interests outside of work: Aimee enjoys running, yoga, bike packing, and hiking — she admits she struggles to sit still for long!
Seema Kapoor (She/Her)
Head of Programmes and Service Delivery
Top skills: Community philanthropy, grantmaking, partnership building, program strategy and management, and communications, all with a focus on decoloniality, centring communities, and increasing equity.
Favourite thing to do at work: Supporting the Delivery Team and our wonderful groups strategically and operationally to achieve their goals and increase equity and impact.
Work history: With a background in global health focused on sustainable community-led responses to malnutrition, Seema holds a bachelor’s in international relations from Penn and a master’s in global health from the LSE. She brings 10+ years of experience in the international development and philanthropy sectors working in fund management and philanthropic responses to crises, with a strong focus on community philanthropy and centring communities in crisis response. She is an experienced advocate for anti-oppression systems change in aid and philanthropy and is passionate about fostering community-led change through transformative partnerships and innovative funding models.
Interests outside of work: Wanderlusting and adventuring, puzzles, and lots of baking and cooking, all with her 2 little boys and partner!
Kristen Woolf (She/Her)
Director of Service Delivery
Top skills: Systems thinking, complex portfolio management, coalition building, strategic partnerships
Favourite thing to do at work: Nurture and grow SCN’s ecosystem “garden”; strengthen service delivery systems and build strong alliances, support the amazing team.
Work history: Kristen is a collaborative leader who thrives in spaces where impact, innovation and equity converge. Her background includes building and leading programmes and strategic partnerships focused on gender, youth, and climate. She brings extensive experience managing donor relationships and complex portfolios across social impact, philanthropy, and non-profit sectors – with a deep commitment to centering local wisdom and supporting community-led solutions.
Interests outside of work: Kristen loves hunting down the best Mexican food in the UK, lifting weights and strength training, walking her dogs, and dancing whenever she gets the chance.
Kata Ovari (She/Her)
Community and Knowledge Lead
Top skills: Community development, building tools and systems for connection and collaboration, social entrepreneurship
Favourite thing to do at work: Learning from our groups how we can best build a community of support, care and learning for them.
Work history: Kata’s background sits at the intersection of arts and culture, social entrepreneurship and innovation. She developed a passion for entrepreneurship working for a consultancy specialising in culture and the creative industries. Led by the discovery of social enterprise, she moved more intentionally into the social impact space, running the London chapter of a global cooperative connecting founders, funders and intermediaries in this field. During this period she tried her hand at building her own venture, connecting values-aligned angel investors with creative entrepreneurs from low-income and working class backgrounds. More recently, Kata was managing programmes and projects aimed at consolidating and supporting place-based ecosystems and communities of practice.
Interests outside of work: Kata loves to cook and is always on a lookout for healthy but delicious recipes. For counterbalance, she’s enjoying a relatively new-found joy for exercising, her fitness goal for 2026 is to do a pull up. And of course her dog, Barky Bark.
Harkiran Bharij (She/Her)
Programmes Assistant
Top skills: Grant distribution, partnership support, international development, research, and writing
Favourite thing to do at work: Help channel funds to grassroots groups and collaborate with partners to make grantmaking more accessible and impactful.
Work history: Harkiran supports the Partnerships Manager in distributing grants across the UK and internationally, working closely with partners such as UMI and RAWA. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Westminster and a Master’s in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). Before joining SCN, she volunteered and later worked at We Make Change, a startup connecting impact-driven organisations with skilled volunteers to help them scale.
Interests outside of work: When she’s not working, Harkiran can be found at the gym, reading, or watching TV. She’s an avid Harry Potter fan and writer with her own newsletter where she explores topics like international development, gender, and inequality — and she’s always keen to write something new!
Esther Foreman (She/Her)
Founder & CEO
Top skills: Leadership, innovation, strategy, social enterprise, and movement building
Favourite thing to do at work: Spot new opportunities, inspire innovation, and ensure everything we do stays true to our vision, mission, and values.
Work history: Esther has over 20 years’ experience across the not-for-profit, social enterprise and business sectors, leading award-winning campaigns, supporting enterprise, and building strong teams. In 2013, she founded The Social Change Agency to combine organising, technology, communications and social enterprise. She is a Clore Social Fellow (2011), Winston Churchill Fellow (2012), and SSE Fellow (2013), and was named among the Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise. Esther also founded The Social Change Nest, The Young Trustees Movement and the Graduate Journal of Social Science.
Interests outside of work: A devoted fan of Ethiopian food
Aimee Dorsett Browne (She/Her)
Head of Community and Impact
Top skills: Community organising, social innovation, grant making, relationship building, and communications
Favourite thing to do at work: Connect with and support the inspiring organisations across SCN’s portfolio, helping them grow and make an impact.
Work history: Aimee has over 10 years of experience working at the intersection of community organising, social innovation, and grant-making. She began her career in France with a startup social enterprise specialising in solutions journalism. After returning to London following the Brexit vote, she spent two years supporting grassroots equality organisations to strengthen their communications and campaigning capacity. She later transitioned into grant-making, helping micro NGOs across England build social enterprise activities and providing wrap-around learning and mentoring support.
Interests outside of work: Aimee enjoys running, yoga, bike packing, and hiking — she admits she struggles to sit still for long!
Seema Kapoor (She/Her)
Head of Programmes and Service Delivery
Top skills: Community philanthropy, grantmaking, partnership building, program strategy and management, and communications, all with a focus on decoloniality, centring communities, and increasing equity.
Favourite thing to do at work: Supporting the Delivery Team and our wonderful groups strategically and operationally to achieve their goals and increase equity and impact.
Work history: With a background in global health focused on sustainable community-led responses to malnutrition, Seema holds a bachelor’s in international relations from Penn and a master’s in global health from the LSE. She brings 10+ years of experience in the international development and philanthropy sectors working in fund management and philanthropic responses to crises, with a strong focus on community philanthropy and centring communities in crisis response. She is an experienced advocate for anti-oppression systems change in aid and philanthropy and is passionate about fostering community-led change through transformative partnerships and innovative funding models.
Interests outside of work: Wanderlusting and adventuring, puzzles, and lots of baking and cooking, all with her 2 little boys and partner!
Kristen Woolf (She/Her)
Director of Service Delivery
Top skills: Systems thinking, complex portfolio management, coalition building, strategic partnerships
Favourite thing to do at work: Nurture and grow SCN’s ecosystem “garden”; strengthen service delivery systems and build strong alliances, support the amazing team.
Work history: Kristen is a collaborative leader who thrives in spaces where impact, innovation and equity converge. Her background includes building and leading programmes and strategic partnerships focused on gender, youth, and climate. She brings extensive experience managing donor relationships and complex portfolios across social impact, philanthropy, and non-profit sectors – with a deep commitment to centering local wisdom and supporting community-led solutions.
Interests outside of work: Kristen loves hunting down the best Mexican food in the UK, lifting weights and strength training, walking her dogs, and dancing whenever she gets the chance.
Kata Ovari (She/Her)
Community and Knowledge Lead
Top skills: Community development, building tools and systems for connection and collaboration, social entrepreneurship
Favourite thing to do at work: Learning from our groups how we can best build a community of support, care and learning for them.
Work history: Kata’s background sits at the intersection of arts and culture, social entrepreneurship and innovation. She developed a passion for entrepreneurship working for a consultancy specialising in culture and the creative industries. Led by the discovery of social enterprise, she moved more intentionally into the social impact space, running the London chapter of a global cooperative connecting founders, funders and intermediaries in this field. During this period she tried her hand at building her own venture, connecting values-aligned angel investors with creative entrepreneurs from low-income and working class backgrounds. More recently, Kata was managing programmes and projects aimed at consolidating and supporting place-based ecosystems and communities of practice.
Interests outside of work: Kata loves to cook and is always on a lookout for healthy but delicious recipes. For counterbalance, she’s enjoying a relatively new-found joy for exercising, her fitness goal for 2026 is to do a pull up. And of course her dog, Barky Bark.
Harkiran Bharij (She/Her)
Programmes Assistant
Top skills: Grant distribution, partnership support, international development, research, and writing
Favourite thing to do at work: Help channel funds to grassroots groups and collaborate with partners to make grantmaking more accessible and impactful.
Work history: Harkiran supports the Partnerships Manager in distributing grants across the UK and internationally, working closely with partners such as UMI and RAWA. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Westminster and a Master’s in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). Before joining SCN, she volunteered and later worked at We Make Change, a startup connecting impact-driven organisations with skilled volunteers to help them scale.
Interests outside of work: When she’s not working, Harkiran can be found at the gym, reading, or watching TV. She’s an avid Harry Potter fan and writer with her own newsletter where she explores topics like international development, gender, and inequality — and she’s always keen to write something new!