SSBD Board
BOARD Members
Michael Giacon
Board MemberMichael Giacon grew up in a Pākehā-Italian family in central Tāmaki/Auckland. He completed an MA in poetry at AUT in 2015, the following year winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.
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Chye-Ling Huang
Board MemberChye-Ling Huang is a Chinese-Pakeha writer and director for film and theatre and co-founder of Proudly Asian Theatre. Her award-winning original plays include Orientation and Call of the Sparrows. (more…)
Hiraani Himona
Board Member
Hiraani Himona (Ngāi Te Whatuiāpiti, Ngāti Rangiwhakāewa, Ngāti Hikarara) has been Executive Director of Te Tuhi since 2015 and was previously Deputy Director of the South London Gallery. (more…)
Izzy Robinson
Board Member
Izzy Robinson is a producer and theatre creator specialising in non-traditional and site specific works, as well as an on-again-off-again playwright. They grew up in Auckland then moved to Montreal to attend University, then onto Washington DC to complete a Scenic Carpentry Apprenticeship.
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Sophie Dowsett
Board Member
Sophie Dowsett is a solicitor from Tāmaki Makaurau, currently practising in finance law. She has a background in human rights law and policy, both in Aotearoa and abroad, including at a New Zealand government inquiry, the United Nations in Vienna, and a human rights NGO in New York.
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