Ms Karen Ritchie (née Campbell), of Pōkeno, ONZM for services to people with HIV/AIDS and Rainbow communities
Ms Karen Ritchie (Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) has held long-standing roles with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF), Body Positive Inc. and Positive Women. She founded the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust to support those dying of AIDS, and their families, who could not afford a funeral. She established the Under 35s HIV Support Group at Body Positive, providing support after diagnosis. She helped establish and worked with the K’Rd Community Safety Group to address rising violence against Rainbow communities and sex workers. She has been a member of the Prostitutes Law Review Committee and provided advocacy towards the decriminalising of sex work with the Prostitution Reform Act 2003. Ms Ritchie is a founding member of the Red Umbrella Fund, an organisation raising and distributing funds for sex workers throughout the world.