John is a New Zealander and lives in Waiheke Island near Auckland. He is head of the department of Social Practice at Unitec, where they teach undergraduate and post graduate programs in Community Development as well as Social Work and Counselling. John has worked extensively in community development in his own community as well as Palmerston North, Papua New Guinea and other Pacific islands and spent a year studying with BRAC in Bangladesh. John is a co-founder of the New Zealand/Aotearoa Community Development association https://www.aotearoacommunitydevelopmentassociation.com/about-us.
