Joany joined the Philanthropy Australia team in 2025, bringing more than 25 years of experience in project and stakeholder management across ambitious media and event initiatives in both not-for-profit and corporate sectors.

Most recently, she served as Partnerships Manager at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), working with government, global and Australian corporate partners. Her extensive background spans two decades in factual film and television production, where she worked as both Producer and Production Manager on notable projects including the documentary features Giants (the 2023 Bob Brown biopic), the climate-change science feature Carbon, and Freeman, the ABC documentary featuring Cathy Freeman. She has also contributed to television series for major networks and platforms including Lonely Planet, Turner Broadcasting, ABC, SBS, Discovery International and National Geographic.