Elina Ashimbayeva
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About the speaker
Elina came to Aotearoa New Zealand from Kazakhstan 12 years ago. She is a co-founder of Storyo, a platform that shares the journeys of women and gender-diverse people from across the country. With more than 170 interviews published, Elina does a lot of advocacy work around diversity, equity, inclusion, and storytelling. She works as an experience designer in the health sector and has a background in product and strategy. Elina also recently developed a course on how to build more inclusive technology.
She is currently creating a series for Storyo on Sex and Health featuring stories of 25 people - follow them on Instagram for all the deets!
Local partners
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Welcome to the world of Libertine Blends â we blend organic tea here in Wellington, Aotearoa. We partner with those who value human connection and support those taking risks to create something new. We think Creative Mornings and the speakers who share their stories are a great match for our bold and thoughtful blends.
It’s tempting to get caught up in the latest and greatest, but we try to remember who we are doing this for and what it is we do best: roasting delicious coffee and creating meaningful coffee experiences for folks who simply love coffee. We roast coffee for our amazing customers; be they cafĂŠ owners or enthusiastic home brewers - coffee drinkers! And luckily, we still get to drink it too. At the heart of Supreme is people, and the way coffee connects us. Perhaps our core product is not, in fact, coffee, but instead, what happens over a coffee shared - generous hospitality.
We love that we make every jar of Fix & Fogg from start to finish in our factory in Wellington. From designing our labels to our carefully blended peanut butter, weâre completely hands-on throughout the entire process. We think our award-winning butters are so popular because people can taste the difference in a product thatâs handmade by humans who care about quality.
At Almighty, we strive to be socially innovative with the way we do business (juicy business), and creativity has always been at the heart of social innovation, exploring new ways of finding solutions to world problems that are more just, more efficient, more sustainable and, sometimes, just more effective. We choose to support the CreativeMornings breakfast lectures to not only encourage others to take part, but to engage in this discourse ourselves, to learn, and to take part in some small way.
