Theme: Global Citizenship

What Is Global Citizenship?
“A global citizen is someone who is aware of and understands the wider world – and their place in it. They take an active role in their community and work with others to make our planet more peaceful, sustainable and fairer” – Oxfam

For it's debut event, TEDxNelson is proud to bring a range of diverse speakers and ideas around the theme of Global Citizenship.

What is Global Citizenship? How can we become Global Citizens? These are the questions our speakers will be exploring on the 19th of March.

Due to Covid-19, the debut event for TEDxNelson was post-poned twice and on the 19th of March our virtual event will take place unearthing local ideas from local speakers.

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Nelson, Nelson City, 7010
New Zealand

Andy Malcolm

Andy Malcolm was this year awarded the Supreme Urological prize in New Zealand for his contribution to Urology over 25 years. He is an inspiring talker who uses immersive real life stories to highlight the struggles that people go through when encountering life and surgery. His 18 years of surgical training was based in New Zealand and England before settling in Nelson for the last 25 years. He is an authority on prostate cancer, and is an active contributor to the improvement of training future urological surgeons in New Zealand.

Anurag Malik

Anurag wanted to be in defense and when he went for an interview he got hold of a book “The conquest of Happiness”, he gave no heed to it. He went on to a journey in various corporates media, pharmaceuticals, banking and hospitality in search of happiness trying to buy happiness with money. He wanted others to be happy so he helped others with money, but in-turn lost relationships and friends. Ultimately he has conquered happiness and now is a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy & Reiki coaching leaders, business & people with traumas, anxiety, depression, limiting beliefs, phobias and grief.

Cath McLeod

Cath is the Chief Science Officer at Cawthron Institute here in Nelson and has previously held diverse roles within the regulatory, scientific and food industry sectors. Her recent positions include Director of the New Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre, where she was pivotal in increasing collaboration on food safety issues across Aotearoa, and Director of the consultancy company Seafood Safety Assessment Ltd, where she focused on providing food safety and market access advice to primary producing industries, retailers and government. Cath’s qualifications include an MSc on marine biotoxins in shellfish and a PhD on foodborne viruses from Victoria University of Wellington, giving her an overarching perspective on two major human food safety issues.

Helena Merschdorf

Helena is a social scientist, GIS analyst, translator, and writer, working at the interface of linguistics and technology. Growing up bilingually and between two cultures, it didn’t take Helena long to recognise the perils of intercultural (mis)communication – and decide to do something about it. She soon made it her mission to understand the complex interplay of language and culture, leading her to obtain master’s degrees in both translation studies and geographic information science. She is currently pursuing her PhD in GIScience, where her research examines how linguistic bias impacts our understanding of global human phenomena.

John-Paul Pochin

John-Paul is a digital artist and photographer based in Nelson with a background in physics, electronics and computers. His work attempts to blur the lines between science and art. John-Paul founded Light Nelson in 2012 to bring people together to freely share ideas, skills and resources and with a focus of a new event that now attracts over 50,000 people. John-Paul also co-founded The Arcade Project aimed at encouraging children to be creators, rather than consumers. The project uses old computer games as inspiration, with a heavy focus on recycling/repurposing. John-Paul has been a long time environmentalist, originally with a focus on active transport, but increasingly more directly on the climate crisis through Extinction Rebellion. He is also a member of the leadership group of the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum. John-Paul was awarded 'Community Hero' at the Eelco Boswijk Civic Awards in 2016 and a 'Local Hero' award by the New Zealander of the Year Awards in 2017.

Loren Pasquier

Originally from France, Loren Pasquier’s work is inspired by her journeys across the earth. Her passion for creating art that connects people collides with her background of degrees in art, design and anthropology. Through her rich, nomadic experiences across 30 countries, the feeling of constant transit and movement became a fundamental part of her make-up as an artist. So, understanding the importance of communication between communities, she has dedicated her work to helping bridge the gap between cultures, using her acute sense for framing stories to bring people together.

Peter Butler

After I left university, I produced illustrated history books for Alister Taylor Publishing. I thought I could continue to do this from the 90 acre bush block that we bought for $5000 in a barely accessible part of Golden Bay, but I ended up track building and gold mining. I experimented with all sorts of crops before settling on kiwifruit, but growing organically wasn’t profitable then. I researched indigenous herbs and found that Horopito outperformed pharmaceuticals in university studies, so replaced the kiwifruit with the most active Horopito and developed a range of products. This led to investing in the an online supplement business, which grew to become the biggest online supplement business in New Zealand. We started donating $1 for every order to worthwhile charities and in a few years had donated over a million dollars. Now we focus our giving, and most of my time, on HealthPost Nature Trust, dedicated to creating a wondrous nature sanctuary at the north-west tip of the South Island.

Sophie Weenink

Sophie Weenink is a 16 year old Nelsonian. She is active in her community through voluntary work and fundraising. Sophie has received national awards from the NZ Impact Awards and Keep NZ Beautiful and a medal from the New Zealander of the year awards. She wants you to know that whoever you are, you have the ability to change the world through positive actions.

Tanya Nock

From a family separated as refugees from the Ugandan expulsion, Tanya feels she has never belonged to a particular state, tribe or nation but is instead a citizen of the world. Tanya is an arts activist; a rare combination of creative arts facilitator and savvy business person. She was awarded the Nelsonian of the Year Arts award in 2016 and featured in the TV 1 “Neighbourhood” Documentary, celebrating those who bring colour and diversity to communities. Her goal in life is to inspire others with Music and be of service to the community, and she has founded Samba de Sol, The Voice Collective and Cultural Conversations.