Jennifer Windsor
Professor Jennifer Windsor is Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. She completed her undergraduate degree at Cumberland College of Health Sciences in Australia and completed her masters and PhD at Purdue University in the United States. She was a professor at the University of Minnesota from 1990-2014, and was Department Chair of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from 2002-2008. She led all aspects of undergraduate education as Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts from 2008 onwards. Her scholarship focuses on children’s language acquisition and disabilities, and she has written numerous research articles on factors influencing language development. Professor Windsor joined Victoria and took up her current position in January 2015.

Sandy Callister
Dr Sandy Callister has been an advisory board member and Art Collection trustee since 2010. She is a foundation member of Aotea Ora Community Trust – Aotea/Great Barrier Island’s first social enterprise trust. She established and runs the Aotea Ora Artist Residency programme. Sandy is currently undertaking a Law Masters at Auckland University focusing on human rights issues and our child poverty legislation in Aotearoa. Her work as a community activist with tamariki through the Painga Project in high deprivation communities in South Auckland has been the catalyst. From 2003 to 2017 Sandy was a founder director of PROVIDENCE GROUP, an ‘insights driven’ strategic consultancy business. She previously worked for TVNZ, Saatchi and Saatchi in New York, Unilever in London, and was Managing Director of Colmar Brunton in Wellington. She holds a BA from Victoria University; a PhD in History from the University of Auckland and has studied women and leadership at the Harvard Business School. Her book The Face of War: New Zealand’s Great War Photography was published by Auckland University Press in 2008.

Jenny Harper
Jenny is the former director of Christchurch Art Gallery, and founding Associate Professor, Art History, Victoria University of Wellington (1995-2005). Jenny Harper was instrumental in the establishment of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington and led the Adam Art Gallery project to its successful opening in 1999. Now retired from her leadership role at the Christchurch Art Gallery, she is offering independent consultancy services to the art museum profession and cultural sector. She is a long-standing patron of the Adam Art Gallery and one of its keenest advocates, who brings her experience, knowledge and fundraising skills to see the Gallery and the Art Collection through the next phases of their history.

Madeleine Setchell
Madeleine is a professional communications and marketing practitioner with 20 years’ experience in the public and private sector and is particularly focused on the link between the effective organisational strategy and brand.

Robin Skinner
Robin Skinner is Dean of Architecture and Design Faculty Office at Victoria University of Wellington.

Carey Young
Carey Young began her working career in an advertising production role in Wellington New Zealand. She travelled to London in 1998 to continue working in this field whilst supporting herself through an undergraduate Fine Art degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London. On return to New Zealand in 2001 she worked for ten years with Hamish McKay and his stable of artists. She has run her own Gallery, The Young, and worked for leading auction house Webb’s and brings her knowledge of art and artists and the collectors who support them to her role on the board and as a trustee.

Michael Moore-Jones
Michael Moore-Jones is the AAG advisory board’s student representative. He is currently completing a PhD in New Zealand Studies that re-examines the foundations of cultural nationalism in New Zealand seeking its international roots and linkages through a close study of key figures in cultural history. He holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Yale-NUS College.