On the final day of money month, join us as we discuss the complicated financial legacy inherited by Generation X. Chaired by Angela Meyer, our panel; Eve Armstrong, Max Rashbrooke, and Jane Wrightson will discuss the socio-economic future for a demographic who experienced major shifts in society and culture during their lifetimes.
Angela Meyer
Angela, a Gen Xer, is the 2023 winner of the Financial Services Council 'Emerging TrailBlazer Award' for her work with women's financial wellbeing via The Table and Hi Money. She has worked in and round the arts for 30 years and is the co-founder of the Real Hot Bitches dance troupe. Her mahi is focussed around radical positive change for women and has worked across a range of sectors. Ange co-founded the Ace Lady Network, Gender Justice Collective, Project Gender, Double Denim, an award-winning agency and EttieKits.
Eve Armstrong
Eve is an artist and arts advisor based in Pōneke. Her practice examines the sculptural and creative potential of the everyday with a focus on the products and by-products of consumption, and the activities of trade and exchange. Eve is an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate (2006) and has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Aotearoa and internationally including at Auckland Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery Wellington and Artspace Aotearoa. Eve currently works as a Senior Arts Advisor at Te Kaunihera ō Pōneke – Wellington City Council where her role focuses on public art and visual art.
Max Rashbrooke
Max was born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand, with dual British and New Zealand citizenship. He attended Petone College a formative experience as he’s described. After that he studied at Victoria University of Wellington, earning a BA (English literature and French) and a BA Hons (English literature). He spent much of the 2000s in London working as a journalist and wrote for specialist political news services, edited a financial magazine, and freelanced for the Guardian. He planned to keep working as a journalist on his return to NZ in 2010, but, having become concerned about rapidly widening economic disparities, he instead ended up editing the book Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, published in 2013. Three more books followed: Wealth and New Zealand, Government for the Public Good, and Too Much Money.
Jane Wrightson
Jane Wrightson became the Retirement Commissioner in 2020 and is now serving her second term leading Crown entity Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission. Jane is also Chair of Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington, a council-controlled organisation (CCO); foundation Chair of CSSITO, a new industry training funding entity; and a Governor of Radio NZ.
Her executive career included stints as chief executive of public media funder NZ On Air; of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, a regulator; and of the Screen Producers’ Association, an industry advocacy body. Previously, Jane became NZ’s first woman chief film censor after a decade in various programming and commissioning roles with TVNZ. She holds an MBA with distinction, a BA in literature, is a chartered member of the Institute of Directors, and is a Distinguished Alumnus of Massey University.
Following this panel discussion there will be a Hi Money! Workshop held at the Wellington Museum. Follow the link on this page to secure your spot.
