Episode #16: Creating Change via Curiosity

Episode #16 in which May Miller-Dawkins talks about the power of questions and curiosity to create change.

May Miller-Dawkins has over 20 years experience working with community groups, organizations, coalitions and social movements. May’s work is all about facilitating catalytic discussions that identify pathways to impact, to support effective long-term social change efforts and build collective leadership capability.

May has a particular talent for cultivating collective leadership, including cross sectoral collaborations. Among her successes, she established the ten-year long Oxfam-Monash Partnership to drive applied action research, and designed and led the Governance and Transparency Initiative of The B Team – a global collective of business and civic leaders.

May has led learning and impact development processes for Open Government Partnership (Washington DC), Transparency International (Berlin), Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW (Walgett & Sydney), The B Team (New York), WEDO (New York), Toitū Tahua (Tamaki Makarau/Auckland), White Box Enterprises (Brisbane) and many more.

May is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the UNSW and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. She holds a BA (Hons – Politics and International Relations) and LLB from UNSW and an LLM (Legal Theory) from NYU.

May lives in Whakatū (Nelson), Aotearoa (New Zealand) with her partner, two sons and dog.