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Jessie Wong founded leather goods label Yu Mei in 2015 after struggling to find a bag that could carry her essentials. Since then, Jessie has grown her team to 16, built a wholesale network of 37 stockists, and opened three stores. NZ Trade & Enterprise recently featured Yu Mei as a success story for building omni-channel retail and pivoting during lockdown; highlighting how the brand sold 600 units in 17 minutes during an online event in 2020. In 2020, Jessie rallied her business networks to raise $51,590 for the Wellington City Mission through the ‘Bags for All’ collaboration.
She is passionate about the role technology can play in achieving a better world. In 2015, Hannah founded In Situ gallery, aiming to keep talented photographers in Christchurch post-earthquake. In 2017 she began the Corner Store collective, for resident artists to work/exhibit in a collaborative, supportive environment. The legacy of the Corner Store has led to Salt Lane Studios, which hosts diverse creatives including photographers, illustrators, videographers and fashion designers. As a producer of Tagata Pasifika, Ngaire champions Pacific Islands cultures – in particular through the Sunpix Pacific Peoples Awards which celebrates Pacific achievement in the community. She has produced a number of Pacific short films including the award-winning Liliu.
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Rapid development of systems and processes was key to delivering for guests and communities. She called every single employer, collecting the information she needed to support workers to come across the border. When MIQ spaces fell through, she negotiated work-arounds that required cross-employer support, with workers sharing rooms.
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RFC now employs 30 local staff, and last year built a new factory on the outskirts of Raglan, producing the first Carbon Zero and B Corporation certified yoghurt in Aotearoa. Ana Wilkinson-Gee lived in India for 10 years, training women to sew in an effort to empower women into meaningful work in villages. She trained more than 170 women in Sambalpur and in 2013, she started an ethical, sustainable fashion label called Holi Boli. Hannah Watkinson is an artist, curator, studio manager and occasional lecturer in Photography at University of Canterbury. She recently finished a decade-long photography project titled The Near Future, considering the psychological landscape and uncertain future of the Buller region, culminating in solo exhibitions as well as a book.