The Fold: Turning words into action, with Laura O’Connell Rapira
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The outgoing director of grassroots community campaigning organisation ActionStation joins Duncan Greive to talk about a busy, and effective, few years in the job.
ActionStation was formed in 2014, but it feels like it’s been around much longer than that. The independent, crowdfunded community organisation has led a number of highly visible and successful campaigns across a wide range of issues during the last six years, thanks in no small part to the energy and forward thinking of its outgoing director Laura O’Connell Rapira.
In her time the group has carried the conversation forward on everything from mental health to making Matariki a public holiday in a distinctly modern, online and media-savvy way. To talk about what’s worked, what hasn’t, the highlights of the role and what’s next, Laura O’Connell Rapira joined host Duncan Greive on this week’s episode of The Fold.
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Duncan Greive
Duncan Greive is the founder of The Spinoff, along with the agency Daylight and music platform Lume. He also hosts The Fold, a podcast which features interviews and analysis about the media sphere in New Zealand.
