Shelley Hirst (she/her)

Shelley Hirst (she/her)
Photo Shelley Hirst

Shelley is a social work practitioner with experience in crisis response, harm prevention, reduction and education. She has enjoyed a diverse range of opportunities working with whānau, rangatahi and adults across the health and disability, mental health, parenting and family violence sectors.
Shelley’s passion to improve outcomes for rangatahi motivated her to accept her role as Education Advisor at Netsafe. She values the opportunity to support young people to be safer online by resourcing the systems and communities rangatahi are part of. She also facilitates Netsafe’s Youth Action Squad, an amazing group of young leaders dedicated to supporting their peers to be safer online.

Shelley is also a self-confessed mycophile and, yes, this does in fact make her a really fun guy (who will bore you to sleep with pictures of fungi she has found in the forests around West Auckland).