Cherida Fraser has worked as a researcher, advocate, whanau ora kaimahi and community liaison in grassroots community-led spaces since she graduated with a masters in cross cultural psychology. Cherida has been at NZPC for over 2 years supporting sex workers to work safely and advocating for their rights.

Chanel Hati is a Community Liason with the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective. With a particular focus on engaging with street - based workers. Chanel is of Nga Puhi decent and is whakawahine (transgender). She recently was a co-curator for the exhibition on pioneering transgender women from Carmen's era at The Potrait Gallery.

Dr Anatole S Menon-Johansson is currently a Sloan & Legatum Fellow at MIT | Class of 2020 with a passion to address infection pandemics and growing expertise on using digital tools to solve clinical problems. Prior to MIT he was the clinical lead for sexual & reproductive health at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust providing a seven day a week service to a local population with the highest HIV prevalence in the UK (www.burrellstreet.co.uk), the clinical director for the young person charity Brook (www.brook.org.uk) providing education and clinical services across the UK and the director of the social enterprises SXT (www.sxt.org.uk). In 2010, SXT was founded to signpost clients to local appropriate services, enable patients with proven infections to anonymously inform their partners and support them to get tested. This cloud-based solution is supporting a network of providers to deliver more effective services with significantly less staff time. Dr Menon-Johansson was recently an honorary lecturer at King’s College London on the Global Health Masters & Bachelors degree program teaching health care policy and systems.

Alex has worked across health promotion and service provision within the sexual health sector in Aotearoa for the last 7 years. Increasing sexual health service accessibility and acceptability for diverse users is a key driver and passion within his work.

Sue Bagshaw works as a primary care doctor specialising in adolescent/youth health at a one stop community youth health centre for 10-25 year olds, which she helped to set up, under a trust called Korowai Youth Well-being Trust. She is working with others to set up a Youth Hub of services and transition housing. She is a senior lecturer in adolescent health in the department of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, and she is an educator with the Collaborative Trust (a research and training centre for youth health and development). She worked for the Family Planning Association for 20 years and worked for ten years part time on the Methadone programme in Christchurch: which is why she has interests in common with young people – sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll!

Tanya is a Community Liaison with The New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective. She is a Health promoter and registered Social Worker with a background in Youth Behaviour Analysis and harmful sexual behaviours . She works face to face with sex workers sharing information about startegies for working safely.