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Aware’s new leader and the art of mending what is broken
Lim Shoon Yin has no activist pedigree but a lifelong instinct for fixing systems that fail people.
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Ms Lim Shoon Yin, executive director of AWARE, with her kintsugi pottery, on April 2.
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On Ms Lim Shoon Yin, a title feels less like a medal than a backpack: practical, weighty and carried without fuss.
When she became executive director of Singapore women’s rights group Aware on Jan 1, she did not come by the usual activist path of community organising, lobbying and years of committee-room battles. Instead, the former DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) professional arrived from petrol stations, boardrooms, factory floors and diversity workshops.
