Zoe Higgins is a Development Adviser with HRMI, supporting our funding portfolio. She is part-time poet and ex-public servant with a mixed background in arts, community work, and international development. Before taking this role with HRMI, Zoe worked for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as a mental health educator with CoLiberate, and as part of the Wellington Women’s Health Collective. She has a BA(Hons) in Geography from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka. She is a Pākehā New Zealander of mixed English, Scottish, Swiss and Welsh ancestry, and hails from Horomaka Banks Peninsula.

Zoe currently lives in Barcelona, where she is pursuing a diploma in mime and physical theatre alongside her HRMI work.