About Us
Dream Bigger, Achieve More
"We're on a mission to ensure that everyone, everywhere has the chance to enjoy a meaningful relationship with STEM"
Nanogirl Labs was created by founders Joe Davis and Dr Michelle Dickinson MNZM. A social enterprise, Nanogirl Labs exists to inspire, educate and empower through STEM.
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our team works around the world to design, create and deliver products and experiences that are both commercially successful and deeply impactful.
Whether with our own brands - Nanogirl, and The Kitchen Science Cookbook - or through collaborations with partners, every piece of work we undertake includes a clear social impact strategy, alongside the core commercial proposition.
We welcome bold ideas and deep thought. If you have a project or concept you would like to discuss, we would love to hear from you.
Joe Davis
FOUNDER, CEO
Joe leads the Nanogirl Labs team worldwide, and many of our key consulting projects. Joe has extensive experience across both commerical and non-profit leadership, innovation, strategy and transformation.
Dr. Michelle Dickinson
FOUNDER, CTO
The original "Nanogirl", Michelle is a world-renowned educator and communicator. An engineer by training with two decades experience across academia and industry, Michelle leadsvtechnical content, insights and strategy.
Kerry Quin
STRATEGY, PARTNERSHIP AND SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER
With extensive global experience across event management, stakeholder management and
entrepreneurship Kerry
leads projects and relationships with our major partners.
Dr. Kate Sparks
OPERATIONS & STEM ENGAGEMENT
A marine biologist, passionate educator, and experienced science communicator, Kate develops much of the STEM content across our products and programmes..
Melanie Wright
MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Mel leads marketing and engagement across Nanogirl Labs' businesses worldwide. With degrees in both psychology and marketing Mel is an expert in creating meaningful and impactful interactions.
Gareth Baston
GLOBAL PRODUCTION & PROGRAMMING MANAGER
Gareth manages our Nanogirl Live! theatre education programmes worldwide, and leads production management & health and safety across the company.
Kevin Yue
ACCOUNTS ADMINISTRATOR
Kevin has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Information System) and has experience across New Zealand and China. His passion for helping young people makes him the perfect fit for Nanogirl Labs.
Samantha Paxton
EDUCATION SPECIALIST
With her experience as a science teacher in the UK and a primary school teacher in New Zealand as well as a background in the magazine media industry, Sam brings a unique skillset of education and publishing to the Nanogirl Labs team.
Hayden Weal
Senior Content Editor
Hayden is a talented filmmaker. In addition to leading Nanogirl Lab's editing team Hayden also visits primary school children, talking about the importance of reading and literacy to achieve their dreams.
Amelia Lockley
Development Assistant
From a young age Amelia has been a champion for STEM education, creating her own code club and Youtube coding videos. She assists with content creation, testing and delivery.
Krystal-Lee Brown
Content Creator and Presenter
With extensive writing, acting and performing skills and a fluent Te Reo Māori speaker Krystal-Lee heads up our cultural advisory and content team for our bilingual science show Mātātoa.
Sophie Fern
Science Content Creator
Sophie is a biologist and storyteller whose research is in understanding the gap between what we tell the public about endangered species and what they understand.