Lani Evans, of Porirua MNZM, for services to social enterprise
Lani Evans is Manager of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation, which aims to reduce the number of excluded and disadvantaged young people in New Zealand. She has led a strategic redesign, launched an accelerator programme and led the release of the DreamLab app, which analyses data for cancer research. She co-founded grassroots grant-maker Thankyou Charitable Trust and sits on the board of the Peter McKenzie Project, a 20-year spend-down fund focused on eradicating child poverty in New Zealand. She ran the regional Volunteer Centre in Otago before becoming the founding co-convenor of the national youth organisation ReGeneration Aotearoa New Zealand. She is Chairperson of the social enterprise Thankyou Payroll.