Adopt a Negotiator is a blog and media team that the Global Call for Climate Action runs to cover the UN climate negotiations. Each year, they select around ten young climate communicators from over 1,500 applicants from around the world to track their countries’ negotiators, give us a stack of bold “Negotiator Tracker” t-shirts, train […]
Read more "Fellow at Adopt a Negotiator"I enjoy taking photos of interesting people – and I think the international climate movement brims with fascinating, diverse characters. In 2013, I worked closely with members of UKYCC from the launch of Humans of the UN Climate Talks, becoming one of the main photographers. Amongst others, I photographed UN General Assembly president John Ashe, UNDP […]
Read more "Photographer, Climate Peoples and Humans of the UN Climate Talks"Since 2013, I have taken on occasional consulting contracts for a small number of New Zealand and international charities and companies. I charge $90 per hour standard, but discount that by up to $50 per hour for charitable clients. Services I have provided include: strategic planning support and advice and business planning designing communications and […]
Read more "Independent Consultant, Tong & Associates Ltd"I’ve been a trustee of the Vegan Society of Aotearoa New Zealand since 2013. The Society aims to support New Zealand vegans and vegetarians, publishes a magazine, and runs events nationwide. On the board, my focus is implementing governance best practice and strategic planning.
Read more "Trustee, Vegan Society"In 2009, soon after I graduated, lecturer Peter Sankoff and a group of University of Auckland law students established the Society of Legal Veg(etari)ans, or SoLVe. I offered to create a website and animal law blog for the society: The Solution. When SoLVe was wound up in 2010, my co-editor Vernon Tava and I agreed […]
Read more "Editor, The Solution"In early 2012, Kris Gledhill of the University of Auckland law school approached a group of old classmates and me with an idea: founding a human rights lawyers association for New Zealand. Most other Commonwealth countries have had a professional association of human rights lawyers for decades. The time had come for New Zealand to catch […]
Read more "Co-Chair of the Aotearoa New Zealand Human Rights Lawyers Association"The International Youth Climate Movement is the global movement of youth for a safe, just climate future. When we go to the UN climate talks, we are the youth constituency – YOUNGO. I have been a member of YOUNGO’s Bottomlining Team since the Durban talks in 2011. The Bottomlining Team basically does the general grunt […]
Read more "Bottomlining Team Member, International Youth Climate Movement (YOUNGO)"2010-2013 I worked as a litigator at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts for two and a half years. In that time, I did most of my work under partners Zane Kennedy and Aaron Lloyd. We secured several meaningful wins for a wide range of clients. Junior solicitor in successful appeal to Court of Appeal and successful opposition […]
Read more "Litigation Solicitor, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts"2009-2010 Judges’ clerking was the best graduate job I could have thought of. If you’re a law student, apply for it. Just go for it. It exposed me both to a very wide range of law and to the very best legal reasoning. From day one, I was in the deep end working on challenging, […]
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