Moderator: Anna Loveys
Anna is SoundCheck Aotearoa’s Project Manager, working across community outreach and collaboration, and leading an 18-month project funded by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, setting up a Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Advisor role for the NZ music community and working alongside the Māori Music Industry Coalition on a broader Te Ao Māori project.
Project Manager, SoundCheck Aotearoa
Anna Loveys (Ngāti Raukawa, Pākehā) has worked in the Aotearoa New Zealand music community for the better part of a decade, supporting artists, management teams and record labels with her expertise in public relations, communications, and project management. She has worked at numerous organizations including The Label, Flying Nun Records, Saint Lachine, and Sony Music.
Anna is SoundCheck Aotearoa’s Project Manager, working across community outreach and collaboration, and leading an 18-month project funded by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, setting up a Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Advisor role for the NZ music community and working alongside the Māori Music Industry Coalition on a broader Te Ao Māori project.
Ninakaye Taane-Tinorau
Ninakaye has managed her younger brother, high-profile artist and producer Tiki Taane, as well as his companies, trust, and record label since 2007. She mentors managers and artists via the Music Managers Forum Aotearoa and is also a Board Member, as well as a Board Member of Soundcheck Aotearoa. An executive member of the Māori Music Industry Coalition, Ninakaye is hugely proactive about creating positive change within the Aotearoa Music Industry and community.
Artist Manager, SoundCheck Aotearoa
Ninakaye has managed her younger brother, high-profile artist and producer Tiki Taane, as well as his companies, trust, and record label since 2007. She mentors managers and artists via the Music Managers Forum Aotearoa and is also a Board Member, as well as a Board Member of Soundcheck Aotearoa. An executive member of the Māori Music Industry Coalition, Ninakaye is hugely proactive about creating positive change within the Aotearoa Music Industry and community.
Outside of the music industry, Ninakaye is one of only five certified Kemetic Yoga instructors in Aotearoa, as well as a part-time Harmful Sexual Behaviour Specialist for Auckland-based Korowai Tūmanako. With an extensive wealth of experience and qualifications across the Public Health, Event Management, Film & TV and Fitness industry’s, it is her colourful personal life’s journey that she credits as her most profound school of knowledge and learning. A resilient mother and grandmother, as well as a recovered stripper and drug / alcohol addict, her huge passion for life, love, people and community wellbeing is both undeniable and contagious.
Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison comes from the Coromandel Peninsula and currently lives in Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington) and works with organisations and communities across Aotearoa to help prevent sexual harassment, sexual violence, domestic violence and child abuse.
SoundCheck Aotearoa
Rachel Harrison comes from the Coromandel Peninsula and currently lives in Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington) and works with organisations and communities across Aotearoa to help prevent sexual harassment, sexual violence, domestic violence and child abuse.
Rachel believes that harassment, violence and abuse are preventable and that the best solutions are tailored to each specific community and workplace, making use of their strengths and minimising specific risk factors.
Rachel started at Auckland Rape Crisis in the 1990’s, and since then has worked at Netsafe, the Hauraki Family Violence Network and Child Abuse Prevention Services Hauraki. She is now self-employed and works with a range of public and private sector organisations including the New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Rugby, the screen sector, performance sector and music community as they work toward making their communities safe and free from harassment and abuse.
Melanie Calvesbert
Mel was born, grew up and lives in Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington). She is Pākehā and in October 2022, made the leap to self employment. The primary focus of her work is working alongside communities and organisations as they seek to both respond well and prevent all forms of sexual harm including sexual harassment in workplaces and child sexual abuse.
Soundcheck Aotearoa
Mel was born, grew up and lives in Te Whanganui a Tara (Wellington). She is Pākehā and in October 2022, made the leap to self employment. The primary focus of her work is working alongside communities and organisations as they seek to both respond well and prevent all forms of sexual harm including sexual harassment in workplaces and child sexual abuse.
More recently, Mel has become the Sexual Harm Prevention & Response Advisor (SHAPRA) for the Music Industry.
Mel worked at the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) up until October 2022. Initially this was as one of their team of regionally based Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Advisors (SAPRAs) and then as the Manager for the SAPRAs.
Prior to the NZDF Mel worked for the most part in NGOs who have a focus on the response to sexual harm, including WellStop and the Wellington Sexual Abuse HELP Foundation.
She enjoys being able to take prior learning and adapt that in order to be able to support organisations which have taken on the challenge of creating safer and respectful environments.