Richard ‘Ricky’ Quintana
Co-Founder & Operations Director
A curator and producer with local roots. Ricky builds the systems, structures and processes that help community ideas run.
About Common Unity
Change starts with the people doing the work.
We believe communities already have the ideas, knowledge and drive to create change, and our role is to build the infrastructure that helps that work go further.
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We know the work because we’ve lived it.
We bring a grounded and practical approach shaped by local knowledge, real experience and a belief in community-led change.
We’ve run programs, organised events and seen good ideas stall under systems that weren’t built for them. That’s why Common Unity exists.
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We build with people, not for them.
We work alongside communities and organisations to create what they actually need to move forward.
Our theory of change is simple — when resources, capability and trusted connections reach the people already doing the work, communities can lead lasting change.
The people behind Common Unity
Our team.
Natalie Chiappazzo
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Natalie brings experience across youth work and social impact, connecting systemic change with practical capacity building.
Ian ‘Esky’ Escandor
Co-Founder & Community Director
An arts and community practitioner whose work spans music, events and cultural engagement.
Ready to take the next step?
Let’s build the support, connections and foundations that help good work go further.