Ann Gluckman

Ann Gluckman MSc, BA has held numerous positions in education and in community organisations. She was foundation principal of Ngā Tapuwae College and the first woman in New Zealand to be appointed principal of a state co-educational secondary school. Elected to the Council of Massey University, she was also the first lay member on the Middlemore Hospital Ethical Committee and the foundation Jewish co-president of the Auckland Council for Christians and Jews. Awarded an OBE in 1993 for services to education and the community, Ann’s writing on comparative religion, multicultural education and travel has been widely published. She has edited and contributed chapters to a number of books and other publications and was co-author of Ageing Is Attitude: The New Zealand experience (1995). She initiated and edited the first two volumes of Identity and Involvement (1990 and 1993 respectively) and wrote a biography of her mother, Postcards from Tukums: A family detective story (2010). Deb Levy Friedler is the rebbetzin of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation. Born in Auckland, she is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and has been involved in leadership in Kadimah, Bnei Akiva, Habonim, the Zionist Federation, the Australasian Union of Jewish Students, Shadows of Shoah and LIMMUD NZ. In the wider community Deb has worked and volunteered as a counsellor, educator youth worker, agency manager and project manager/analyst. Lindy Davis is a multimedia print journalist based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has published extensively and is the author of four books, Global Kitchen (New Holland, 2019) Quay to the Cove (New Holland, 2017) and two junior fiction titles, The Golden Scarab and The Golden Scarab’s Secret (Pelican Press, 2013).