TEAM
Deepa Sealy
PROGRAM ADVISOR, MENTOR
Deepa comes with 13 years of community and not for profit experience. Born and raised in North India and partly in Aotearoa New Zealand too, she went to university to study architecture and art history only to be swept up by the injustices in the world brought to the fore by the Arabian Spring & Wall St movements of 2010/2011.
After this, university felt like a distraction, and so she took up volunteering in local movements, mobilisations and environmental not for profits. Since then Deepa has been in a variety of roles from community organising, to community agriculture workshops, co-creating kids' school holiday programs in nature, raising awareness of healthy & sustainable architecture and housing, time banking, political campaigns to protect Aotearoa from drilling and mining, and more recently as an Operational Manager and Grants Manager in a fast scaling organisation.
Currently she is the Partnerships & Projects manager in a movement building dedicated team at the Sunrise Project, working on scaling organisations & the climate movement to do excellent work to fight fossil fuels, and ensure we're transitioning to renewables as fast as possible.
When not at work Deepa loves reading, films, writing poems and articles, long walks in nature, mentoring & advocating for marginalised voices, family time and travel. She also loves to continuously mull on the state of the world and how it could be more oriented to social and climate justice and what it'll take to get there.