Ashley Campbell

I grew up in Bexley, beside the Ōtākaro/Avon River, and went to school in New Brighton, Shirley, and Aranui. After university, I followed my dreams to the bigger cities of, first, London and then Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, where I lived for 16 years.

In 2011 the February 22 earthquake destroyed the home I grew up in, the home 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.

This campaign became a driving force in my life, so at the beginning of 2013 I returned to Ōtautahi/Christchurch to devote myself to it. I was a founding member of Avon-Ōtākaro Network, and founder of Greening the Red Zone.

For the past two years, I have been a community member of Te Tira Kāhikuhiku, the Red Zones transformative land use consultative group.

I now live just over the ward boundary, in North Linwood.

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