Our staff
Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira
Role: CEO
Pronouns: they/them/ia
Location: Naarm/Melbourne
Te Raukura is Māori and Irish with whakapapa (lineage and ancestry) to the lands of Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whakaue and County Kerry. Te Raukura is a campaigner, organiser, strategist, facilitator and trainer with over a decade of experience at ActionStation Aotearoa, Youth Movement Fund Aotearoa, Foundation for Young Australians, Tauiwi Tautoko, JustSpeak, RockEnrol and more. They are takatāpui (queer and Māori) and believe deeply in the values of whanaungatanga (kinship and relationships), kaitiakitanga (guardianship of the environment), kotahitanga (unity across difference) and mana motuhake (Indigenous self-determination).
Lisa Viliamu Jameson 
Role: Director – First Nations & Pasifika Solidarity
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Niue
You’ll find Lisa curating pop-up art exhibitions in Brisbane, whilst dismantling the fossil fuel industry. Lisa Viliamu Jameson is a Sāmoan Australian community campaigner and creative producer. She is a community organiser for the Brisbane Pacific Climate Warriors and campaigner for 350 Australia. Lisa currently campaigns for the landmark Torres Strait Climate Justice case ‘Our Islands Our Home’. She is also the co-founder and creative director of ‘Conscious Mic,’ a collective of artists, cultural practitioners and creative producers based in Brisbane who identify as Indigenous, Pacific Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse.
Kelly Albion
Role: Climate Justice Coalition C0-Convenor
Pronouns: they/them
Location: Naarm/Melbourne
Kelly Albion has been a climate activist since they were in high school, and joined 350.org in November 2019 with a fire in their belly to take on the fossil fuel lobby. Kelly convenes the Climate Justice Coalition, the people power and movement building arm of the movement wide campaign to end coal and gas exports. Previously they were building a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in various roles including campaigns, communications and schools – they are currently the chair of the AYCC board.
Yessie Mosby
Role: Our Islands Our Home Cultural Lead
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Masig, Torres Strait
Yessie Mosby is a Zenadth Kes Masig man, living in the Kulkalgal tribe area in the Central Torres Strait Islands. He is a Traditional Owner, a father, an artist and craftsman, a #TorresStrait8 claimant in the human rights complaint to the United Nations over climate change, and the Torres Strait organiser with 350.org Australia.
Ken Matahari
Role: Senior Organiser
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Naarm/Melbourne
Beatrice Valek
Role: Queensland Organiser
Pronouns: they/she
Location: Meanjin/Brisbane
Beatrice (Bea) is a Sri Lankan – Austrian settler on Yaggera and Turrbal country here in Meanjin, so called Brisbane. Beatrice has worked as a campaigner, organiser and facilitator in Meanjin’s anti-racist, feminist, environmental and climate spaces. Beatrice is a passionate and strong believer in disrupting and challenging current narratives, representation, histories, and language in order to shift the way we understand our relationships with the natural world. Bea believes this is important, so that we can begin to ask questions to do with what we allow to thrive socially – in order to look for different solutions, as well as encourage others to express their love, compassion and anger through direct action and resistance. When Bea is not being a full time agitator, you can also catch them gardening, knitting you a blanket, cooking for and with community, reading, and sampling Meanjin’s best Banh Mi.
Lavanya Pant
Role: VIC Organiser
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Naarm/Melbourne
Lavanya is the Victoria Organiser and is passionate about building community for the long haul. She strongly believes that for people to feel empowered, resilient and joyful they must have the support and social connections that it takes to sustain activism and fight for justice. Lavanya got her first taste for activism as coordinator for the Nobel Peace Ride for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and being inspired by the anti-nuclear movement in Australia. She has experience in electoral and community organising in environmental and racial justice campaigns at GetUp, Colour Code and Environment Victoria. She loves camping and cooking with friends and family.
Shani Tager
Role: Senior Campaigner – Fossil Free
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Dharug and Gundungurra country/Blue Mountains
Shani brings over ten years experience working on campaigns to move Australia away from coal and gas and to turbocharge renewable energy. She’s worked alongside frontline communities to stop coal and gas projects and cut billions of public subsidies to dirty industries. She loves a people-powered win and chasing after her toddler on bush tracks.
Waniki Alofipo
Role: Our Islands Our Home Organiser
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Meanjin/Brisbane
Waniki Alofipo is a Zenadth Kes and Papuan storyteller based in Magandjin (Brisbane). She is the Organising Lead for Our Islands Our Home, the Torres Strait Climate Justice campaign at 350 Australia, where she leads community organising and storytelling to amplify Torres Strait Islander voices on the frontlines of climate change. Her work is grounded in culture, community and the power of storytelling. Motherhood has deepened the purpose behind her advocacy, shaping how she fights, creates and works towards a just and liveable future.
James Conlan
Role: Senior Campaigner – Electrify NSW
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Naarm/Melbourne
James is a queer unionist and grassroots activist. He believes that bold, collective action is needed to address the intersecting crises of poverty, inequality and climate change. He’s been politically active his whole adult life, founding a student-led campaign to stop the East West Link toll road when he was at uni. He’s since led local community campaigns to improve sustainable transport and the environment, as well as joining social and environmental justice campaigns like Marriage Equality and Stop Adani. He was recently a city councillor on Merri-bek Council. His passions can be summarised under the acronym PPP – politics, plants and piano (definitely not public private partnerships).
OUR VALUES
🌻 We embrace sacred behaviour on sacred land
✊We are bold, creative and strategic
⚖️We work for justice
💙 We care for and trust one another
🤝We are stronger when we collaborate
💬 We are transparent and accountable