Kena Duignan

Kena Duignan grew up in Pōneke, and lives there still with her whānau. She has a particular focus on sustainability issues especially climate change. She has a Masters in Environmental Studies from Victoria University and has experience working to communicate heavy issues with a range of communities in a way that inspires agency, hope and action. She has worked across a variety of roles – from grass roots kai sovereignty mahi, to supporting development of sustainable food policy, and through to providing communication and media advice to Members of Parliament in their hectic work.

She now works to tautoko communities who are leading their own change as Community Innovation Lead at Wesley Community Action, and recently has spent a year on a project with Wellington City Council, supporting communities to design and take their own action on climate change in the city.  As a tangata Tiriti, (and a mother to tamariki Māori) Kena is committed to working in a te Tiriti honouring way recognising all the koha that this unique te Tiriti partnership offers us.