Ashley Campbell

I am a former journalist now working in science communications.

For the past 8 years I have worked at Lincoln University as a communications adviser and manager with scientists and engineers tackling issues such as climate change, nitrate pollution, bioprotection, and regenerative agriculture. I am currently Communications Manager for Lincoln Agritech.

Through this work I have gained insight into and an and understanding of the complex interactions between human behaviour and the environment we live in.

I grew up in Bexley, beside the Ōtākaro/Avon River, and went to school in New Brighton, Shirley, and Aranui.

The February 22 earthquake destroyed the home I grew up in, which my parents were still living in. When the red zone was announced in June 2011 I started the campaign for the area to be returned to nature.

I was a founding member of Avon-Ōtākaro Network, and founder of Greening the Red Zone. I later became a member of Te Tira Kāhikuhiku, the Red Zones transformative land use consultative group, which advised LINZ and the Christchurch City Council on temporary land uses.

I want to work with nature to face the challenges of polluted waterways, climate change, and biodiversity loss.