This episode features an interview with Laura O’Connell Rapira (now known as Te Raukura O'Connell Rapira) the former director of Aotearoa digital campaign organization ActionStation and former executive director of movement building at the Foundation for Young Australians. In conversation with Commons Librarian Holly Hammond they discuss the importance of putting shared values at the heart of campaigning and other work, as well as the significance of contributions by youth and First Nations to social change. Laura also reflects on assisting people to work together across difference in terms of background, life experiences and approaches to social change through the creation of meeting and organizing spaces where people can show up as their full selves.
Explore Further
- How Action Station became a Values-led Organisation
- Foundation for Young Australians – Movement Network & Collective Imagining
- The future can be awesome but not without activism – TED Talk by Laura O’Connell Rapira
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