🔥 On Purpose 🔥

Thursday 18 Sep 2024 | 5.30-8.30pm | Auahi Ora | Free Entry

🎈 What is On Purpose?

On Purpose is a social impact speaker night that celebrates the many shapes and forms that social impact and leadership come in: badass, disruptive, unexpected, creative, big, small and everything in between. You don’t have to wear a suit, have a formal position, or start an NGO to make social impact ripples (and maybe waves).

We invite some known, unknown, expected and unexpected social impact legends to share their stories and challenge what social impact and leadership looks like across an evening of informal conversations. No surprises then, that On Purpose is one of our favourite events on the Social Impact Studio calendar!

🌞 What do we talk about?

This year our questions will span a few topics that are top of mind for our team:

• unpacking mainstream ideas of social impact and leadership

• creative change

• life after uni and work with purpose

• and anything else that crops up on the night!

🙌 Who joined us this year?

Boy, do we have some great chats coming your way from some epic people. Scroll on down to find out more!!!

🎟 How do I get a ticket?

Entry to On Purpose is and always has been FREEEEEEEE. As we have limited capacity, please let us know ASAP if you can’t make it so we can share your seat to someone on our waitlist. We can highly recommend roping in your mates to come along to On Purpose and getting a hit of wisdom, positivity and food for thought together.

Speakers

Eman Ghandour // Khawat Network

My name is Eman, and I grew up in Ōtepoti. I’m passionate about blending community work with creativity and aesthetics, and I’m driven by diversity, inclusion, equity, and challenging the narratives that hold us back. I’m particularly interested in pay equity, colonisation, and cultural identity — topics that energise and inspire me.

As an Arab Muslim, I feel a strong connection to te ao Māori, which has grounded me throughout my life. Volunteering, donating, and giving back are deeply embedded in who I am. That’s why I strive to merge community work, social enterprise, and volunteering, using the skills we have to create positive change.

While I speak from my own experience, I’m also representing a global network of wāhine from diverse backgrounds. We carry generations of knowledge, and I believe it’s vital to remember and honour that knowledge when we migrate.

Fun fact: I love anything that gives me an adrenaline rush so on the very last day of last year, I went skydiving on the last day of the year. 

Miria Flavell // Founder, CEO of HINE

Ruby is an illustrator living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She is well known for her simple but impactful drawings that explore themes of love, relationships, mental health, and body image. Ruby is best known for her drawing of two women embracing in a hug, penned with the words “This is your home and you should have been safe here”, which was shared widely online following the 2019 Christchurch terror attacks. Following this, Ruby was invited to illustrate a cover for Time Magazine. She has since released two books with Penguin Random House - All Of This Is For You (2019) and In This Body (2022).  In her spare time Ruby enjoys watching live music, racing her friends to finish the NYT mini crossword, and reading in the sun. Her favourite book is Just Kids by Patti Smith. 

Alice Taylor // Community-builder

Kia ora koutou e hoa mā, I’m a former Otago uni student, current rat racer, and future retiree - doing my best to stay curious & accepting of all life’s mysteries. I’m a huge fan of embracing unseriousness whilst tackling deeply serious issues and building a variety of bridges between people and the communities they feel motivated to serve. I am merely an infant in the world of organising & movement building but believe the best ideas and learnings come from the communities themselves, so I look forward to not only sharing some of my experience, but to hearing about yours! And my go to series for study distraction? Succession - because you can never figure out who to love and who to hate. If I had a podcast show on a niche subject what would it be? Deepdives into every song on BRAT. Mā te wā!

Alice Taylor // Community-builder

Kia ora koutou e hoa mā, I’m a former Otago uni student, current rat racer, and future retiree - doing my best to stay curious & accepting of all life’s mysteries. I’m a huge fan of embracing unseriousness whilst tackling deeply serious issues and building a variety of bridges between people and the communities they feel motivated to serve. I am merely an infant in the world of organising & movement building but believe the best ideas and learnings come from the communities themselves, so I look forward to not only sharing some of my experience, but to hearing about yours! And my go to series for study distraction? Succession - because you can never figure out who to love and who to hate. If I had a podcast show on a niche subject what would it be? Deepdives into every song on BRAT. Mā te wā!