I work strategically across arts, academia and advocacy. I am interested in how enthusiastic public actions can lead to long term perception and policy changes.

In the academic space, I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland and was a 2023 Fulbright Scholar.

In the arts, I am founding editor of Lawrence and Gibson. I'm also a novelist: in April 2022, Down from Upland was published and long listed for the Ockham NZ Book Award fiction prize. My previous novel, Rat King Landlord (2020), was re-released in 2023 in a special, full colour tabloid edition with 16 original illustrations.

In 2013 I launched the Doing Our Bit advocacy campaign to double New Zealand's refugee quota from 750 to 1500. Drawing together numerous civil society groups, the campaign led to non-partisan policy commitments of an increased quota from every political party in parliament.