Phylesha Brown-Acton, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to the Pacific and LGBTQI+ communities
Phylesha Brown-Acton was Project Coordinator for the Pacific Peoples Project at the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and managed the Foundation’s International Development Programme. She co-ordinated two Love Life Fono gatherings, the largest gatherings of Pacific sexual and gender minority groups in the world to date. She is a Trustee of the Māori, Indigenous, and Pacific HIV/AIDS Foundation, and Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network. She founded F’INE Pasifika Aotearoa, which supports Pacific LGBTQI+ peoples and their families. She is a board member of Auckland PRIDE Festival. Ms Acton-Brown has been a delegate to several equal rights and human rights conferences internationally.