MADAL est. 2013

Hi everyone! My name is Jack Chen. I'm a Year 12 student at Liston College out in West Auckland. After MAD, I set up my school's Enviro-Group; of which alongside the help of other students, has now become an inter-school Enviro-Group. I have helped to co-host a West Auckland Mini-Jam, and I also was apart of a group of agents for Generation Zero for NZ-Pacific PowerShift in 2012.

Lars was an Auckland representative for the Sir Peter Blake Enviro Leaders Forum and he is particularly passionate about the Christchurch rebuild and associated water management issues. As the leader of his environmental council at school, he attended the Mini Jam at Westlake Girls (representing Pinehurst), ‘hands across the sand’ protest against deep sea oil drilling (as a protestor) and the New Zealand Model United Nations conference in Wellington (representing Chile).

Grace is from Mahurangi College and was a MAD Marine leader this year. She also helped to start the environmental group at her school. The projects she is involved with include rubbish cleanups at local beaches, waste audits and paper recycling at her school, and of course, raising sustainability awareness. She has a lot of future projects in mind!

Elizabeth is a student from St Cuthbert’s College and has been very active in the sustainability community on issues such as palm oil. After MAD, she stepped up and became a leader not only for the MAD Sustainability Camp, but also for the MAD Marines. Other achievements include becoming an Auckland representative for the Sir Peter Blake Youth Forum and a voyager to the Sub-Antarctic Islands.

Hi my name is Seleisa Fuaivaa and I am currently a year 13 student at Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate. I joined MAD in 2012 and ever since I have been so passionate about making a difference, environmentally. I returned to MAD as a leader and am now leading Hillarys first envirogroup ECO SQUAD. I have also hosted a mini jam for South Auckland schools.

My name is Victor and I was a participant of the very first MAD camp in 2007. After MAD, I also attended the Sir Peter Blake Youth Environmental Forum and traveled to Princeton to study Economics and Environmental Policy. At University, I was the program manager at the Office of Sustainability and I established the Sustainability Ambassador Program. During my semester abroad at HKU, I also studied sustainable design and submitted a Bus Lane project proposal to the Ministry of Transport.

MAD was my first stepping stone on a journey to finding what I can bring to sustainability in general and climate change in particular. My latest project was coordinating What's the Holdup, a national speaking tour that saw over 2100 attendees wanting to get moving on climate change. I'm excited to find out what leadership means in a dynamic as complex as the climate issues we face today, and to carry on the core of the spirit that MAD gave me all those years ago.