Our team took on the task of bringing TEDx to the University of Auckland to initiate dialogue on issues that affect our community. We believe that revolutionary ideas have the power to shape our minds by challenging existing notions. But often these ideas go unheard, because they lack a platform that gives them a voice; we want TEDxUoA to be that platform.
Our Team
Co-Presidents
Dewmi Jayatilake
Bachelor of Science/ Commerce
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Co-President
Quote: "Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Recreate yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you"
Christopher Kenyon
Bachelor of Law
Pronoun: He/Him
Role: Co-President
Quote: "Beauty is terror"
OPERATION TEAM
Deema Alasadi
Bachelor of Law
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Operations Team Lead
Quote: "Whatever is meant to be will be"
Dominic Coates
Bachelor of Commerce
Pronoun: He/Him
Role: Treasurer
Quote: "Everything can be given or taken in a moment"
Saaid Faraz
Bachelor of Engineering
Pronoun: He/Him
Role: Operations Team Member
Quote: "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies"
MARKETING TEAM
Senilka Yapa
Bachelor of Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Marketing Team Lead
Quote: "Growth over comfort"
Roda Ibrahim
Bachelor of Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Marketing Team Member
Quote: "What's meant for you will never miss you"
Faatimah Nisa
Bachelor of Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Marketing Team Member
Quote: "Life is tough but so are you"
CURATION TEAM
Fatuma Farouk
Bachelor of Law/ Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Co-Lead
Quote: "What you seek is seeking you"
Jessie Wu
Bachelor of Law/ Commerce
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Co-Lead
Quote: "Is butter a carb"
Nikita Nobre
Bachelor of Commerce
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Member
Quote: "Don’t make a life, don’t take a life, don’t end up in the hospital, news or jail, but if you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly"
Gargi Vaidya
Bachelor of Law/ Global Studies
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Member
Quote: "A life full of memories is the richest life you can live"
Julya Yang
Bachelor of Law/ Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Member
Quote: "Trust the Process"
Savera Sidhu
Bachelor of Science
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Curations Team Member
Quote: "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together"
Devon Johnson
Bachelor of Arts
Pronoun: Any
Role: Curations Team Member
Quote: "Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi"
PARTNERSHIPS TEAM
Zoe Zhu
Bachelor of Law/ Commerce
Pronoun: She/Her
Role: Partnerships Team Member
Quote: "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice"
Gabriel Manalo
Bachelor of Law/ Commerce
Pronoun: He/Him
Role: Partnerships Team Member
Quote: "Short words are best"
Daniel Lobo
Bachelor of Engineering/ Commerce
Pronoun: He/Him
Role: Partnerships Team Member
Quote: "Everything in moderation including moderation"