Cultural Ambassador, Speaker and Facilitator, Cross-Polynate
Daisy Lavea-Timo is passionate about speaking, coaching, stakeholder engagement, women’s empowerment & youth development. She has 2 decades of experience teaching, mentoring and people weaving across multiple worlds and sectors. A former English and Drama Teacher, Southern Regional Manager of the Ministry of Youth Development and Engagement Advisor for Regenerate Christchurch, Daisy is passionate about connecting Talanoa across sectors in her mahi, especially anything that involves the worlds of rangatahi.
Daisy founded Cross-Polynate in 2020, a Social change agency which specialises in creative, collaborative leadership and indigenous participatory approaches to build social connectedness that enables youth development, aiga and community wellbeing and cultural confidence coaching. The desire behind this was to combine a team of Indigenous Avengers to improve outcomes for indigenous peoples and communities across the motu and Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa.
Daisy is a proud wife and mum. She’s also the 2017 New Zealand Slam Poetry Champion, a 2020 Creative New Zealand NZ Leadership Scholar and has spoken and performed internationally.
