“Khylee Qunice Associate Professor, Associate Head of Law School, Auckland University of Technology. Women of Influence Finalist – Public Policy . . Khylee Quince is a law lecturer of 22 years, a proud Māori woman who “speaks up and out, on behalf of Māori and Pasifika”. Khylee has worked with Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann to embed diversity into professional development for judges. In 2015, following reports of a series of incidents involving summer clerks at law firm Russell McVeagh, Khylee exposed a long history of similar incidents. Her whistleblowing led to media coverage and eventually a review conducted by Dame Margaret Bazely. “Khylee Quince found the extraordinary courage to confront this situation and hold this business to account for its actions. Her courage, commitment and purpose can only be admired.”
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DR Robbie Francis Human rights researcher, Disability rights advocate, Founder The Lucy Foundation. Women of Influence Finalist – Global
Born with phocomelia syndrome, Roberta Francis learned to walk using an artificial limb called ‘Lucy Leg’. With a background in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, Robbie is an advocate for disability rights who has worked with disabled people in Bangladesh, India, France, and Ecuador. She has documented abuse of disabled women in Latin America, worked with landmine victims in Colombia and she is now Senior Human Rights Researcher at the Donald Beasley Institute where she leads the Disabled Person-Led Monitoring of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New Zealand. In her spare time, she runs The Lucy Foundation. The Lucy Foundation works with coffee farmers in the Oaxaca region of Mexico who engage with Robbie’s team to sustainably grow Pluma coffee which is then exported to New Zealand. In Mexico, processing the coffee provides paid work to disabled people, many of whom have never before been part of a workforce.
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Christian Mushenko Winner in 2021 IPA – International Photography Awards
My father has always lived in the country, but now at 78 finds himself living in the city; an integral part of his new family with his Chinese wife and her children and grandchildren. Their strength of family across the ocean, and blending of West and East make a rich home.
In his words, home is – “Where I sit and contemplate my past with a thankful heart for the people I have loved, and what I have seen and done with my time on earth.”
“For a time, home was uncertain. After the death of two women in my life and now in old age, I met my wife to be when she spoke no English and I spoke no Mandarin. We fell in love with each other looking into each others eyes! Home is here together.”
