Laura O'Connell Rapira

BIO

Laura O'Connell Rapira (Te Ātiawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) is the Director of ActionStation, an independent, crowdfunded community campaigning organisation representing over 180,000 New Zealanders acting together to create what we cannot achieve on our own: a society, economy and democracy that serves all of us - everyday people and Papatūānuku (Earth Mother). She is the Co-Founder of RockEnrol, a majority-volunteer run organisation dedicated to building and activating political power for the young people of Aotearoa. She sits on the Voting Assembly for Greenpeace New Zealand and the Steering Committee for the New Zealand Alternative.

She is passionate about unleashing the power of people through digital and community organising, effective collaboration, values-based storytelling and manaaki.

ARTEFACT

Below is our People's Agenda - a crowdsourced vision for the future of the country we created through a process of distributed dinner conversations and online surveys.