Lived Expertise, Insights and Influence
We support community leadership, build capability, connect and platform lived expertise to decision-makers, to amplify influence. Placing real lives, experiences and expertise at the centre – by, for and with community.
Pass The Mic
Pass The Mic amplifies the voices of people from migrant and former refugee backgrounds who are shaping Aotearoa today.
What began as a collection of stories has grown into a multimedia platform featuring personal narratives and a podcast series. We create space for people to share their journeys in their own words celebrating the contributions, experiences, and perspectives that enrich our communities and strengthen the fabric of our nation.
Pass the Mic, a book of stories
This collection of stories features members of our diverse Henderson-Massey community in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland sharing their journeys of migration, settlement, and what it means to belong in Aotearoa.
Pass The Mic Podcast Season 1
Created in collaboration with Planet FM, Storyo and Sport Waitakere, Season 1 of the Pass the Mic podcast amplifies fifteen powerful voices from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Featuring guests from Singapore, Congo, South Africa, Palestine, Samoa, China, Russia, the Philippines and Syria including climate change consultants, youth leaders, poets, engineers, and tech professionals, each episode explores what it means to navigate, contribute to, and belong in Aotearoa.
Conversations cover decolonisation, exploring identity, migrant relationships with Te Tiriti, finding your place as a migrant, young people and the future, depression and anxiety, faith, rainbow and queer culture, and urban planning with an ethnic lens.
These conversations go beyond surface-level storytelling. They're honest, unfiltered, and told by the people who live them, exploring the reality of building a life in Aotearoa with all its complexity, challenge, and hope.
Ready to listen? Dive into Season 1 and hear these stories for yourself. Each episode offers a different perspective, a new insight, and a reminder of the rich diversity that shapes our communities.
Pass The Mic Podcast Season 2
Season 2 shifts focus to the employment experiences of migrants and former refugees in Aotearoa. Featuring brilliant guests from Colombia, Mexico, India, China, Egypt, and beyond, this season digs into the realities of navigating work and career in a new country, the barriers, the breakthroughs, and everything in between.
Conversations explore Te Tiriti and employment systems, networking in unfamiliar spaces, job applications, culture shocks in the workplace, neurodivergence and ADHD, changing careers, uplifting women of colour, volunteering as a pathway, politics, and building businesses. These are the stories of people who've had to prove themselves again, adapt, persist, and carve out their place in Aotearoa's workforce.
Whether you're navigating your own career journey, hiring and supporting migrant talent, or simply curious about the lived reality of employment for newcomers, Season 2 offers insights you won't want to miss. Listen now and hear what really happens when skill, experience, and resilience meet systemic barriers and how people push through anyway.