Program speakers

Jacinta Parsons 

Broadcaster

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, radio maker, writer, and public speaker. She currently co-hosts The Friday Revue with Brian Nankervis on ABC Melbourne. She is the author of two books, Unseen (Affirm Press 2020) & A Question of Age (Harper Collins/ABC Books 2022) and is writing her third, A Wisdom of Age with Harper Collins. 

Jacinta is an ambassador for the Crohn’s and Colitis Association  and is a board member for neurodivergent Melbourne theatre company, Rollercoaster. 

Jacinta is the MC at the Funding Network events, and believes deeply in the power of communities  to raise funds and create connections, and enable Australia’s brightest social entrepreneurs to move closer to their dreams of a more equitable future.