A Waiheke resident for eight years working part-time for LJ Associates.  My Governance roles include Treasurer of the Hauraki Gulf Conservation Trust and Te Korowai o Waiheke Trust and Chair of Carbon Neutral New Zealand Trust, New Zealand Community Economic Development Trust and the Canterbury Community Business Trust.

 Previously the manager of the Christchurch Small Business Enterprise Centre and the Canterbury Community Business Trust (both social enterprises) and a lecturer in the Unitec’s Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management specialising in Community Funding and Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise and Financial Management.

 I am passionate about the environment with particular expertise in social and environmental accounting; social enterprises; not-for-profit financial management, community economic development and community resilience and sustainability.