Brian Sweeney: The New Zealand Story
Brian Sweeney is the New York-based Chairman of SweeneyVesty, a global corporate communications company founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 1987 with Jane Vesty, an international leader in Public Relations. He is dedicated to the idea of New Zealand exporting its services, innovation and creativity, and to the related positioning and communications New Zealand must […]
Christopher Ledbetter: Author
December 8, 2016 by Gail
Filed under 5 KURIOUS Kiwi Questions
‘Drawn’ was Chris Ledbetter’s debut Young Adult’s novel, one in which “all his sixteen year-old [main] character Cameron Shade thinks about is art. That, and for Farrah Spangled to view him as more than just a friend. To impress her, Cameron sketches her portrait into a mysterious sketch book. He gets a shock when the […]
Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia Killed My Brother. Let’s End the Hate
On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat’s brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor’s sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator’s story, that he killed them over a traffic dispute, went unquestioned by the media and police until Suzanne Barakat spoke out at a press conference, calling the murders […]
Anil Dash: Holding to Account
ThinkUp co-founder and tech blogger Anil Dash questions what happens to our civic discourse when our online conversations occur under the terms of service of a small group of privately-owned tech companies whose sense of civic-mindedness is questionable at best? Are we part of the problem by not being part of the solution?
Tanya Dillon-Iremonger: Businesswoman/Jetsprint Racer
August 27, 2014 by Gail
Filed under 5 KURIOUS Kiwi Questions
H. M. Stanley is immortalised by his words “Dr Livingstone I presume?” It was like that the first time I met Tanya Dillon-Iremonger tho’ I recall it was more like, “Do you know my friend Amy in Sydney?” Fortunately for me, providing Amy’s surname also proved to be the right oil for a quick turn […]
