Our team
Staff
Alex Johnston
Co-Director, Campaign Organiser (Climate)
Alex (Pākehā, Scottish/Irish whakapapa) is the former Campaigns Lead for Oxfam Aotearoa. From 2019 to 2022 he led Oxfam campaigns on climate change, overseas aid, vaccine equity, and refugee rights. Over the years he has been involved in a variety of successful campaigns, most recently securing an $869 million increase to New Zealand’s overseas climate finance, a quadrupling of the previous funding commitment. He has previously run campaigning and climate change education workshops in university groups through 350 Aotearoa, in churches through the ecumenical Church Climate Network and in the Diocese of Auckland through the Diocesan Climate Change Action Group. He currently lives at Ngatiawa River Monastery, a contemporary Anglican monastery on the Kāpiti Coast, on the whenua of Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai with his wife Genevieve, and their daughter.
Kate Day
Co-Director, Campaign Organiser (Economic Justice)
Kate (Pākehā, English/Scottish whakapapa) is the former Advocacy Enabler in the Anglican Diocese of Wellington. From 2017 to 2022 she mobilised hundreds of Anglicans to advocate in campaigns on climate change, overseas aid, and housing. She previously worked with Anglican Advocacy Christchurch. Over the years she has been involved in a variety of successful campaigns, most recently mentoring a group of young Anglicans to lead the Free Fares Campaign, which won half-price fares for public transport for people on Community Services Cards - about one million people, and free public transport for under 13s. She was also part of the team that created the curriculum for Better World, a Christian social justice gap year, with NZCMS. She lives in Wellington with her husband John-Luke and their two children, and worships at St Thomas’ Anglican Church, Newtown.
Climate Team
The volunteers behind www.endfreecredits.nz
Te Tiriti Justice Teams
We currently have two volunteers teams organising our movement in the area of Te Tiriti justice. One in Pōneke Wellington and one in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Board of Trustees
Matt Crawshaw (Chair)
Matt (Pākehā) and his wife Chrissie live in Cannons Creek, Porirua with their five children. Matt works with Bishop’s Community Development Trust. His passion is to see people across communities and the church living out their faith through tangible expressions of social, economic or environmental action that impact and transform our communities for the better. He has significant experience leading change within the community sector both at a neighbourhood level and in roles with Wesley Community Action and the Salvation Army before his current role. Matt holds governance roles across a range of small not for profit and community sector organisations around the lower North Island.
Reverend Wendy Scott
Ko Manaia toku maunga, Ko Pukekauri toku awa, Ko Patuharake toku iwi, Ko Wendy Scott toku ingoa.
I am an Anglican priest in the diocese of Wellington and hold two paid roles. One overseeing the special character in our Anglican schools in the Wairarapa and the second as priest in charge of St Matthew's Masterton. I have a passion for God's justice and long to see young people from across our churches engage in meaningful ways to see God's kingdom come. I live in Pahiatua with my husband and our two foster children. Together we care for our five children and our mokopuna.
Reverend Dr Rangi Nicholson
Reverend Dr Rangi Nicholson (Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Au o Te Tonga, Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne, Ngāti Kuia and Ngāti Pāhauwera) is a clergyperson and a contextual theologian in the Māori Anglican Church - Te Hāhi Mihinare. He is also a sociolinguist who has spent over fifty years working in the area of Māori language revitalisation. He has taught at four universities and worked with many tribal, church and government organisations on Māori language planning and policy issues. His current theology research interests include justice and peace regarding Te Tiriti of Waitangi, Māori language and climate change.
Mary Hutchinson
I live in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with my husband and we have two grown daughters living overseas. Faith, and a love of taiao has been part of me since early childhood, with exploring our garden in Ōtautahi Christchurch, and during holidays near Rakahuri/Ashley River in North Canterbury. I worked as a GP until the 2010s and since then have become a photographer and mixed media artist, along with helping in community native restoration projects. Also I work 1 day a week at Massey University Wellington as a lay ecumenical chaplain, where I aim to support students to be inspired by knowing Jesus, and to take action in the climate and social justice spheres.
