Our Team
RACHEL MORRISS-JARVIS
Executive Director
Rachel brings over 20 years of leadership experience across education, public services, retail, and social services.
Rachel has a long-standing commitment to family violence and trauma services, with more than 14 years of governance and frontline experience, including her role as a board member at Family Action in West Auckland.
ASHIANA SHAH
Operations Manager
Ashiana Shah is the Operations Manager of Rape Prevention Education since 2011. She has experience working in the not-for-profit sector in financial management, human resources, grants funding and administration. She graduated from Unitec with a Graduate Diploma in not-for-profit management.
Ashiana is from Fiji and moved to Auckland with her partner in 2008. When she is not working, she enjoys cooking, reading and watching documentaries.
LESLEY-ANN GUILD
Programme Development Lead
Lesley-Ann has a background working with young people of diverse sexes, sexualities and genders and more than a decade working in sexuality education. She has had the pleasure of seeing first-hand how much difference great education around sexuality and relationships can make. Lesley is excited to be able to focus on consent education and sexual violence prevention as she is passionate about education as a way of supporting social change. Lesley feels privileged to be part of the work and history of RPE. Outside of work Lesley plays hockey, indoor netball and loves to bake and share indulgent food.
SERA ELLIOTT
Programmes Coordinator
Sera came on board in 2020 to liaise with key stakeholders to make run our programmes with smooth efficiency. When not juggling timetables and logistics, Sera is home with her husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs and 2 cats to organise her own chaos.
SYLVIA BELLINGHAM
Lead Educator
Kia ora! I'm Sylvia and I have been an educator at RPE since early 2020. I moved to Tāmaki Makaurau from Ōtautahi - Christchurch where I grew up, for this amazing job opportunity. Finishing high school it was my dream to get involved in spreading awareness and positive messaging around healthy sex and relationships. This combined with a passion for social justice and ending sexual violence, lead me to Otago University where I did a degree in Gender Studies, something I am so happy to get to put to use every day in this mahi. Outside of work my main hobbies are cooking, dancing and spending time with my friends. You'll often find me in the kitchen cooking up storm, blasting music and dancing away. Ngā mihi!
JULES PUCKLE
LEAD EDUCATOR
EDUCATOR TEAM
Our amazing educators deliver BodySafe and other programmes throughout Tāmaki Makaurau. Click on the BodySafe website for more information.