People

Emeritus Professor Carolyn M. King FRSNZ completed a D. Phil at Oxford University, UK, on the ecology of British weasels in 1971, then moved to New Zealand to join DSIR Ecology Division as a scientist specialising on introduced predators, particularly stoats. She has written or edited many books about New Zealand animals, edited academic journals for the Royal Society of New Zealand (1983 to 2009), and took a second PhD in religious studies from the University of Waikato in 1999. From 1995 to 2018, she taught zoology and conservation biology at Waikato University, where she now continues writing part time. Her work has been recognised by prestigious awards from the Ecological Society of New Zealand (1999), the Mammal Society of UK (2005) and the Australasian Wildlife Management Society (2021).

Dr Jay Mātenga is a Māori contextual theologian with over 30 years of experience serving cross-cultural missions. As Executive Director of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and Opinions Editor at Christian Daily International, Jay’s passion is to strengthen participation in God’s purposes in the world in light of a maturing world Christianity. Jay keeps an archive of presentation material and a monthly blog on his website: https://jaymatenga.com.

Sir David John Moxon KNZM, KStJ, MMCM,  (born 6 September 1951) is a New Zealand Anglican bishop. He went to school in Papaioea, Palmerston North, served as a VSA school leaver youth worker in Fiji  in 1970, and gained degrees in Education and Theology from Massey, Canterbury and Oxford universities respectively. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Waikato and Massey universities, and is an honorary fellow of St Peter’s College Oxford and St Margaret’s College Otago. Prior to being a bishop in 1993, he was a priest in Havelock North and Tauranga, and served as the director of Theological education by Extension for Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.

David serves on various secondary and tertiary Anglican educational boards and a Māori work skills riparian planting trust in Piako as well as a national  anti-slavery ecumenical network. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome from 2013-2017. He was previously the Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, from 1993-2013, the Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses 2016 -2013, and one of the three primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia 2008-2013. In the 2014 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican Church. He is a Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable order of St John of Jerusalem ( Hato Hone St John Ambulance) in Aotearoa New Zealand. David is married to Tureiti a Māori health provider and advocate, and they have four grown children and four mokopuna.

Mo works for A Rocha as the Eco Church Regional Coordinator for the lower North Island. Mo is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives in Whanganui with her husband Kirk and their three teenage children. Prior to working for A Rocha she has been a parish minister, National Youth Coordinator, piano teacher, and local church youth worker. Mo has a lot of experience speaking and facilitating groups. She is passionate about encouraging churches and groups to engage with Creation Care as an intrinsic part of what it means to follow Jesus and be the church. She is a strong advocate for youth and children’s ministry and is particularly passionate about encouraging all-age Creation Care initiatives.

Amber, a qualified early childhood educator, effortlessly blends education, conservation and fun. With her warm smile, she makes tamariki feel valued and included. She oversees the Karioi Project’s education programme, but her off-the-clock fun includes being a massage therapist, lover of live music, and pursuing adventures.

Gray Baldwin is a Waikato based farmer growing maize, breeding Wagyu calves and milking 850 Jersey cows. In 2009 he and his wife Marilyn were supreme winners in the Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They have since developed a constructed wetland on their farm and joined the Pokaiwhenua StreamCare group. Gray is a director of Trinity Lands Ltd, Farmlands Co-Operative and is Parish Council Chair at St Pauls Anglican-Methodist Church in Putaruru. He holds an M.Agr.Sc (Massey) and an M.Theol (Otago).