Kassie (Ngāti Raukawa) is a community organiser who has contributed across different movements such as Te Tiriti justice, LGBTIQ+ rights, feminism, anti-racism, economic justice and the union movement. She is a former youth worker and has a passion for mentoring young people as they create social change. She is the Director for ActionStation, a community campaigning organisation.

Hailey Xavier is an Indian queer student involved in community and climate activism.

They are currently working on projects that centre around youth advocacy while studying at Otago University.

Taranaki 🗻. Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Whakaue. County Kerry in Ireland.

Libra sun, Cancer rising, Leo moon. Takatāpui INFP that loves deep chats, great music, vegan food, collective models of care, abolition, imagination, queer and trans liberation, the moon, stars and ocean, land back and Indigenous sovereignty.

Te Raukura has done work with the Foundation for Young Australians, ActionStation, Inspiring Stories, Australian Progress, JustSpeak, The Workshop, RockEnrol and kaupapa.

Alice was born in Auckland and moved to Wellington in 2018 to begin study at Victoria University of Wellington. Her lived experiences as a disabled woman opened her eyes to the inequities in society, particularly in the education sector. In 2021, Alice Mander founded and was the inaugural President of the National Disabled Students Association (NDSA). NDSA is the national representative body of disabled tertiary students in Aotearoa. They work with Government, other national student organizations, and local disabled student leaders to try and create a more equitable tertiary system. She is privileged to be returning in 2022, taking up the role of Co-President. Alice is a student herself, studying Law and Arts at Victoria. She’s also been involved with other social justice organizations and disability justice organizations such as the Disabled Persons’ Assembly and ImagineBetter, as well as writing for publications such as AllIsForAll, TheSpinoff, and Salient.

Te Rarawa, Te Hikutū, Ngāpuhi, Aitutaki born and raised in GI, Tāmaki Makaurau. Christina believes that Indigenous knowledge systems are the rongoā for a lot of the raru in te ao. She exists to tautoko and amplify the voices and aspirations of Indigenous whānau, with a particular focus on taitamariki. Over the years she has led the design and delivery of enterprise, hauora and leadership programmes for taitamariki. Her mahi at Ara Taiohi, the peak body for youth development in Aotearoa is focused on serving our Māori and Pasifika taitamariki and those who serve them.

Adam has been a Tangata Tiriti activist for climate justice ever since a freak storm sent waves crashing into his community in Whakatū Nelson. He’s driven campaigns with groups such as Generation Zero, Greenpeace, Oil Free Otago, 350, Coal Action Network Aotearoa and freefares.nz - believing that by building people power and solidarity we can build unstoppable momentum for a cleaner, fairer Aotearoa. He is part of the McLaren Clan with ancestors from Loch Lomond, Scotland.

Isabella is currently studying a Masters of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the health impacts of climate change. Prior to this, she was a union organiser/campaigner for NZEI Te Riu Roa and was the (Co)-President of the Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union and the New Zealand Student Union. Isabella holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and a Bachelor of Laws from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington.

India (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Rangitāne) was raised in the Heretaunga plains, a bountiful place circled by mountains and rising Pacific Ocean. They are a student and Climate Justice Organiser at ActionStation. India’s pathway into the climate justice movement was through the Māori heritage space and lived experience of climate injustice. India is a co-founder of Te Ara Whatu, an Indigenous youth climate justice organisation, bringing expertise from advocating at UN sessions as well as working at the grass roots level. They are driven by a passion for supporting young people in their aspirations for climate justice and collective liberation.

Tēnā koutou, ko Ngāti Māhanga te iwi, ko Ngāti Kūkū te hapū, ko Kelly Mitchell tōku ingoa. I am an undergraduate student at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, studying a LLB/BA majoring in both Te Reo Māori and Māori Studies. In 2022 I am also the co-tumuaki (co-president) of Ngāi Tauia, Te Herenga Waka's Māori Students Association.

I grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau, and thanks to my parents and some influential teachers, grew up with a strong sense of justice and political keenness. In late high school and early University I enagaged with various justice groups, notably JustSpeak and P.A.P.A, with a lifelong goal to end the mass incarceration of tāngata Māori. I currently focus more so on Māori academic success, and the ways in which the University ought to better support Māori through housing and income.

I went on exchange to Denmark at 16, and today consider myself fluent in English, and conversational in both te reo Māori and Danish.

Ruby is a creative writing facilitator, poet, essayist and storyteller of te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa. Proudly Polynesian, Ruby seeks to empower rangatahi Māori and Pasifika through accessible opportunities for creative self-expression. She is the community outreach coordinator and facilitator for Te Kāhui, a Corrections and community-based creative writing programme. The kaupapa has engaged almost 300 rangatahi and is currently working towards the publication of an anthology of rangatahi writing to celebrate the various ways in which truth can be expressed. Ruby centres indigeneity at the heart of her mahi and chooses to navigate with aroha and purpose. Alongside Te Kāhui, Ruby is also a published writer, law student, tuākana for arts students and research assistant in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.

Shaneel Shavneel Lal is iTaukei and Indian and identifies as vakasalewalewa and hijra. Lal is the founder of the Conversion Therapy Action Group, a group working to end conversion therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lal is an executive board member of Rainbow Youth and Auckland Pride Festival and a trustee of Adhikaar Aotearoa, a non-profit charity that provides education, support and advocacy for queer South Asians.

Lal has served as an advisor to the New Zealand Minister of Education for three years and has sat on Amnesty International’s Youth Task Force. Lal has been Global Youth Leader for Open Government Partnership. Lal is a model, political commentator on queer and indigenous rights issues and a law and psychology student at the University of Auckland. Lal is a writer focusing on Indigenous queerness.

Originally from Plymouth, UK, NZ has been her home for 7 years and she’s a permanent resident settled in Wellington.

Her working life of 15 years spanning hospitality, scientific academic research and the building industry, has lead her to advocate for equality, mental health and positive cultures.

Hospitality has been her main passion, developing Wine as her specialty. She’s a committee member of Raise The Bar Hospitality Union and in 2019 founded a non-profit wine-tasting club for Wellington hospitality and wine industry people (Welly Somm Club).

After battling depression for many years, she is doing “The Work” of a cycle breaker to heal generational trauma and also recent events.

She believes in making the world a kinder, happier, inclusive place for all, starting with our community right here.

Tobias is a femme takatāpui tāhine. He has Kai Tahu and Te Āti Awa whakapapa. Tobias is the Volunteer and Community Engagement Coordinator at InsideOUT Kōaro and has been involved with the organisation since 2015. He is passionate about mental health and supporting others and has lived experience of mental distress. Tobias cares a lot about decolonisation, fat liberation, disability rights, and rainbow liberation, and has many thoughts about all of these things! He is currently studying Te Reo Māori and Anthropology at Te Herenga Waka, as well as working at InsideOUT Kōaro. When he’s not expressing himself through DND and other TTRPGs, he can be found crocheting, reading niche nonfiction books, and googling new names to add to his name hoard.

Henry Laws has been a member of People Against Prisons Aotearoa since 2016, with him currently being PAPA's National Campaigns Coordinator and National Communications Administrator. Henry has also been involved in a range of other progressive social movements since the early 2010’s.

Henry is involved with PAPA as he holds that prisons, police and courts as institutions that must be abolished, as they are integral in reproducing through violence the hierarchical power relations that are the root cause of the exploitation and oppression of workers, the oppressed and the environment in Aotearoa and globally, such as the state, capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism and many more.

Henry holds that abolitionist politics is a vital part of a broader emancipatory politics that abolishes the above systems and creates new societies in Aotearoa and globally where social harm is addressed through transformative justice, everyone is equal and are stewards of the Earth in common, has their needs met and exercise their individual and collective freedom to determine their lives peacefully and in harmony with the Earth.