our board

Michaela Latimer

Chair

Sue Emerson

Board Member

Valetine Tauamiti

Board Member

Valentine is a board member The Youth Impact Foundation Aotearoa. Having now transitioned from his role as CEO, we are privilaged to have Valentine supporting the TYIF board. He first started working for Attitude Programmes for Schools in 2012, where he took pride on appealing to a wide range of audiences. He was the manager of the North Island office based in Auckland for a number of years, before cutting his teeth on community development projects and sponsorship bids. After a few years based overseas, he returned as CEO of Attitude, and alongside the Australian executive, oversaw the formation of the The Youth Impact Foundation here in New Zealand. He also holds a number of board roles for other not-for-profits.

Lucy Coulston

Board Member / Secretary

Kaimahi - our Team

Christian

Chief Operations Officer

Christian Gallen - Ngāti Kahungunu - is the Chief Operations Officer at The Youth Impact Foundation Aotearoa. He joined Attitude in 2009 and has journeyed through the many eras of Attitude as a presenter, trainer, team lead and director.He has overseen teams of New Zealand's best youth communicators, developed high impact youth programmes and now lends his experience to The Youth Impact Foundation.

Andy

Chief Executive Officer

Andy is the CEO of The Youth Impact Foundation. When Andy was 21, he founded the Not-for-Profit organisation Burn Bright, a social enterprise with the mission of increasing the wellbeing of young people through leadership and character-building programmes and national camps based on an evidence-based theory of change centred on wellbeing science and positive psychology.