Mr Abann Yor, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to ethnic and migrant communities
Abann Yor volunteered as a community leader with the Auckland South Sudanese Community and has since contributed through various leadership roles, advocating, and educating within several migrant and former refugee organisations. He is Chief Executive of the Aotearoa Resettled Community Coalition, a collective voice of migrant communities working at all levels to progress resettlement, integration and thriving of migrants. His initiatives to support resettled migrants have included a social hub for seniors, a youth leadership forum, a women’s leadership network and an annual soccer tournament. Mr Yor has published four books and five articles on his own experiences and is Chief Editor of the ‘New Resident Magazine’.