ITANZ Board Trust Members

Mani Bruce Mitchell - Executive Director mani at film evening.jpg (14644 bytes)

 

Dip. T., Dip. Ed., Dip. Counsel., MNZAC, ITTA Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Educator, Change Agent ,  Private practice – consultant. Gender variance specialist.

Established ITANZ (Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand ) 1996 .  My own clinical practice has been informed and extended by my own journey and exploration of my birth as an intersex person. My childhood was a complex discordant disjunction of growing up with conservative, loving parents in remote rural New Zealand and the never spoken about shrouded secret of my variant body and intersex reality. Trained as a teacher, with significant amounts of media training as a result of a 14 year career in emergency management I made a very careful and considered decision in 1996 to live openly, work as a professional person as an educator and break the silence, secrecy and shame that has surrounded this reality.

 

Dr Margaret Sparrow  DCNZM MBE   MJS at Braithwaite St.jpg (63298 bytes)

BSc  MBChB  DipVen  FAChSHM  HonDSc  FRANZCOG(Hon)

Dr Sparrow is a specialist sexual health physician, now retired.  She worked in Family Planning for 34 years and the Wellington FPA clinic is named after her. She is an Honorary Vice President and Life Member of FPA. In 1976 she studied for the diploma in venereology in London and on her return to New Zealand worked at the Wellington Sexual Health Service, then part of Wellington Public Hospital . It was there that she met Mani and became involved in intersex issues. She has a special interest in abortion services and is President of ALRANZ (the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand). She is a Company Director of Istar Ltd which imports the abortion pill into New Zealand . She has always had a commitment to issues of sexual and reproductive human rights.

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Sayer Literary Agency, established 2000. Literary agent to authors of New Zealand fiction, memoir, poetry, novels, photography, travel and politics.

Gay Kahu gay

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Drew Mackenzie drew

RGON, MN

I am a registered nurse with a Master of Nursing degree. My introduction to the realities of living with an intersex anatomy was hearing Mani Mitchell speak openly about her life. This astounded me because it was not a reality that I had any knowledge nor awareness of despite many many years nursing. So as part of my Masters degree I undertook New Zealand’s first qualitative research exploring the experiences of people born with intersex anatomies. I am currently employed by the Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand as a health promoter working with people and the challenges they face having a bleeding disorder.

Joy Liddicoat

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Elizabeth McDonald

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Chris Parkin pakin

Ko Wainui te maunga, ko Kapiti te moutere, ko Whareroa, ko Wainui ngā awa, ko Paekākāriki te puke, ko Paekākāriki te ingoa o tōku papa kāinga, he   ūkaipō tēnei rohe ki ahau, ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi, he uri nō ngā iwi o Wērā    ōku mātua, ko Chris tōku ingoa

I trained as a philosopher in Manchester, Heidelberg and Oxford.  My main philosophical interest is ethics but I have also taught jurisprudence, political theory, feminist theory and history of philosophy.  I taught courses in ethical theory and practical ethics at Victoria University of Wellington from 1965-1995, becoming an associate professor and serving three terms as head of department.

In the wake of the Cartwright Inquiry I was actively involved in reviewing ethics training provided within the undergraduate medical course, and began teaching at Otago University's Wellington School of Medicine in 1989, initially on a part-time basis but becoming full-time in 1995.  Some years ago the ethics component of the course was integrated within a wider professional skills programme.

My interest in sexual ethics and politics led me, among other things, to become a founder member and later some time President of the NZ Homosexual Law Reform Society, an active member Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition as of Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays in the law change campaigns, and a founding trustee and some time Chair of the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand.

Brian King brian

Brian hails from Canada originally and taught secondary school in Tokoroa and Porirua from 1996-2000. He then entered the English language teaching industry in Canada and Korea whilst pursuing an MA in Applied Linguistics. During this period of study he discovered a passion for the study of language, gender and sexuality and has since begun publishing his research in international journals.  He returned to NZ via Victoria University in late 2006, as a teacher on the English Proficiency Programme. He is now a third-year PhD student at Victoria. His PhD project focuses on language use in sexuality education, a project during which he has worked closely with Mani Mitchell. They have also worked together as co-founders of the Sexuality Education Roundtable of New Zealand. Outside of study, Brian enjoys singing with the Homophones, Wellington’s gay men’s chorus. He is also a passionate advocate of sexuality education, and a gender and sexual rights activist.

Jeanie Douche

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