Currently working in system change and design work, has been a whole career journey towards. Starting out as a youth worker in south auckland, growing into social work and then community development, struggling to accept the boundaries of what's possible to change within each of these roles. Incorporating my past experience, I am working currently to grow and alter systems in place; through enabling communities as much ownership and control in the creation and shifting of the systems and structures around them. Currently working at Auckland City Mission as the GM of Food Security - from food parcels to Kai Sovereignty. I also founded Rākau Tautoko in late 2016 as a small Auckland-based consulting social enterprise, and am still the managing director. We are a network of skilled, creative and like-minded practitioners. We enjoy collaborating and value doing high quality work that benefits communities. Rākau Tautoko creates supportive opportunities for community practitioners to develop their knowledge, skills, apply their philosophy and exercise appropriate accountabilities. The practitioners of Rākau Tautoko undertakes community research, community-related projects, community development advice, facilitation and leadership. My role in the group as the founder and managing director of Rākau Tautoko is to gather and support highly skilled and creative practitioners that are good people, doing good work in the community. We take on community projects that will make a difference for whānau in the communities we work within.