Kelly Leow & Jasmine Ng
Kelly Leow (left) and Jasmine Ng (right) in the AWARE office. | Photocredit: Kentville PP
Kelly Leow is co-writer and co-producer of the podcast Saga (2020-2021). Kelly received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, then served as deputy editor at the L.A.-based MovieMaker, a quarterly print magazine about independent filmmaking. She was senior communications manager at Singapore gender equality organisation AWARE from 2019 to 2023. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, Kelly recently completed a double Master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Bologna and University of York. Her short fiction story “Breakwater” won the 2022 Epigram-Storytel Horror Prize and appears in the anthologies Fright and the Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Vol. Six. She currently lives in London.
Jasmine Ng, co-writer and co-producer of Saga, is a filmmaker who tells stories across film/television, theatre, site-specific installations and audioscapes. Jasmine graduated from New York University Tisch on an Economic Development Board scholarship. She has directed and executive-produced award-winning international and local television broadcast work, shorts ("Moveable Feast"), series and feature films (Eating Air, A Year of No Significance, Discovery Channel's Afterlife and Netflix’s Shirkers). Her film installations for multi-disciplinary projects include the IPS Prism project on citizens and policy-making, and Both Sides, Now, which centred on community engagement on issues of death and dying (supported by Lien Foundation, National Arts Council and Agency for Integrated Care). Jasmine completed her Master’s in Public Policy on a Singapore Management University scholarship. She was the founding president and is currently Executive Director of the Singapore Association of Motion Picture Professionals (SAMPP). In recognition of SAMPP’s industry leadership efforts, she was conferred the SkillsFuture Fellowship Award.
About AWARE
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) is Singapore's leading women's rights and gender equality organisation. Since its founding in 1985, AWARE has carried out pioneering research and advocacy on issues such as sexual assault, workplace harassment, the challenges faced by lower-income women and single mothers. Over the years, AWARE has fought for more supportive laws and stronger protection against gender-based violence, while challenging policies and social attitudes that discriminate against women. It also provides direct support through its helplines, counselling, legal advice, and other vital services for women in need.For more information on AWARE, please visit: https://www.aware.org.sg.
Books by these authors
With a Foreword by Tommy Koh and Introduction by Bharati Jagdish
About the Book
March 2009. When 100 strangers arrived at a run-of-the-mill meeting for Singapore gender-equality group AWARE, long-time members sensed that something was wrong. Who were the mysterious women wresting control of this respected volunteer organisation? And what disturbing secrets united them? What happened next became the stuff of national legend: starting with an astonishing coup and culminating in an extraordinary demonstration of equality and justice.
First released in 2020 as an award-winning long-form narrative podcast—the first ever in Singapore—Saga captured the social and political reverberations, and electrifying plot twists, that defined this chapter in Singapore civil society history. Now The Saga Podcast Transcripts: Fury, Faith and the Fight for Justice in the AWARE Saga brings together in print the voices of those who lived it—the activists, observers and members of the public who found themselves swept into the storm.
This is more than a record of events. It is an intimately human story of power and resistance, courage and community—and a reminder of how fragile, and how vital, civic life can be.
About the Authors
Kelly Leow and Jasmine Ng are the co-writers and co-producers of the podcast Saga (2020-21).
About AWARE
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) is Singapore’s leading women’s rights and gender equality organisation. Since its formation in 1985, AWARE has carried out research on numerous issues affecting women, including workplace sexual harassment, poverty of older women and Singapore’s compliance with UN anti-gender discrimination standards. Over the years, AWARE has effectively advocated against laws, public policies and mindsets that discriminate against women. AWARE also provides case management, counselling, legal advice, befriending and other assistance to women in need.