Dr Anne Stephens, (PhD, MBA) is a sociologist and manager of research and evaluation. Anne has worked for the Queensland and Victorian governments as well as for Australian and International NGOs as an evaluation consultant. As an academic, Anne’s social and theoretical work has been used in community and government for family violence prevention; adult and infant head trauma prevention; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander vocational training for workforce development, and substance use harm reduction and treatment. Anne is the author of Feminist Systems Thinking (2012) and over 50 journal articles, reports and conference papers. She is an Adjunct Senior Researcher at James Cook University, an Endeavour Research Fellow and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, New York, in 2016.

Ellen and Anne are co-authors of the UN Women’s Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender Equality, Environments and Marginalized Voices (ISE4GEMs): A New Approach for the SDG Era (2018). They are currently under contract with Routledge Press developing a book on Inclusive Systemic Thinking with a network of collaborators.

Dr Ellen Lewis (MA, PhD) is a systems thinker who works globally, specializing in organizational change, group dynamics, gender equality and evaluation. Her systemic interventions bring into focus the complexity and interrelatedness of gender equality, environmental sustainability, habitability, and social justice. Ellen partners with academic, public, private, and community organizations. She leads projects in youth, organization, and community development using gender responsive and participatory practices in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, United Kingdom, and the United States. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico, currently lives in Northern California, USA and is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Ellen and Anne are co-authors of the UN Women’s Inclusive Systemic Evaluation for Gender Equality, Environments and Marginalized Voices (ISE4GEMs): A New Approach for the SDG Era (2018). They are currently under contract with Routledge Press developing a book on Inclusive Systemic Thinking with a network of collaborators.