Rōpu | Team

We are an Impact Narrative™ Agency that helps people do good, effectively.

We know that growing a movement and making long-lasting change is about more than just making a movie, so we have a diverse in-house team who are subject matter experts; community leaders; and creatives skilled in Impact Narrative and ethical change making. We also regularly collaborate with Aotearoa’s top talent across the film, campaigning, and social change industries to make sure your projects are truly unique and cutting-edge.

say kia ora to some of our team below!

 

Jason Boberg

creative director

he/him

Jason Boberg is a proudly disabled climate change and disability rights advocate and social entrepreneur. The co-founder of Activate Agency and our incubated organisation, the SustainedAbility Disability & Climate Network, he has advocated for disability inclusive climate action at the UNCRPD and the UNFCCC, particularly campaigning for a formal Disability Constituency to bring disabled people together and promote disability rights within the UNFCCC.

At Activate, Jason brings a critical disability rights lens to his work, providing training and policy advice to NGOs, DPOs, and government. Professionally trained as a film director, having worked in Los Angeles and in the start-up ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay Area, Jason is able to blend his expertise in disability rights and climate justice with his creative expertise to ensure that film productions and other media communicate powerful stories for social change, while upholding the highest standards of rights-based and values-based messaging.

His recent work includes co-authoring the Nothing About Us Without Us: Climate change and disability justice chapter in Climate Aotearoa, Ed. Helen Clark; becoming the inaugural co-chair of the Disability Caucus at the UNFCCC after many years of advocacy for a Disability Caucus and Constituency in the UN Climate Negotiations; and directing a disability community series on Covid-19 impacts in Aoteaora. He has represented the global disability community making interventions to the COP26 High Level Segment Assembly, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities General Assembly; and speaks publically on these issues, including the People’s Promise for Climate Impact flagship event during Climate and Biodiversity Week at the Dubai World Expo (October 3rd 2021); COP26 Peoples’ Plenary; and Tolerance & Inclusivity Week at Expo 2020 Dubai (Nov 2021).

Jason currently serves as the co-chair of the Auckland Council Disability Advisory Panel and represents the Disability Advisory Panel on the Climate Change Working Group. He is also a Climate Reality Leader and Founding Trustee of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, which provides micro-grants for disabled led community projects around the world.

 

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan

impact director

she/her

Kera Sherwood-O'Regan (Kāi Tahu) is an indigenous and disabled multidisciplinary storyteller and rights advocate based in Te Waipounamu. She is the Co-founder and Impact Director at Activate Agency.  

Kera’s work centers structurally oppressed communities in social change movements; explores collaborative and collective storytelling in community; and seeks to raise the bar for free, prior, informed, and ongoing consent in the media. Kera’s work is grounded in kaupapa Māori practices and approaches, and is informed by more than 15 years of activism within the climate movement.

In her spare time, she runs Fibromyalgia Aotearoa NZ, and advocates for indigenous and disability rights at the United Nations climate negotiations with the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, The SustainedAbility Disability & Climate Network, and within the wider climate justice movement. She is an internationally trained Climate Reality Leader, Center for Australian Progress Campaigning Fellow, and was an UNLEASH Innovation Lab 2019 Global Talent, working in Shenzhen, China with an international team on UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Change to innovate and prototype a climate disaster response intervention to support at risk communities in Grenada, in the face of increasing cyclone prevalence due to climate change.

Portrait of Kera Sherwood-O'Regan. She looks relaxed and confident with a slight smile. She has olive skin, dark brown and grey hair, and brown eyes. She is wearing cat eye glasses, Māori pounamu greenstone earrings, and a navy shirt with white dots.
 

Kera’s recent writing includes co-authoring From threat to opportunity: Climate change and health in Aotearoa with Dr Rhys Jones, and Nothing about us without us: Climate change and disability justice with Jason Boberg, both in Climate Aoteroa, Ed. Helen Clark.

Recent speaking and public engagements include speaking on climate justice and Indigenous Rights at the Te Aratini Festival of Indigenous & Tribal Ideas (Dubai, Nov 2021); Expo 2020 Tolerance & Inclusivity Week: Programme for People and Planet (Dubai, 2021); World Majilis (Dubai, 2021); The Business of Compassion: The Values of Our Economy (Dubai, 2021); NUKU Women; and making the closing intervention for Indigenous Peoples Organisations at COP25 Madrid; Blue Pacific to Glasgow Forum (October 2021); and moderating the Climate Justice session at the Global Virtual Climate Reality Leadership Training (October 2021).