Hi, my name is Olivia Adie, and I am honoured and excites to be your Kaitiaki o Ara/SADD Deputy Youth Representative for 2025.

For me SADD has been my area of joy and focus as a national leader in 2023 & 2024 and I am grateful to be continuing into this next phase of my journey with the organisation. This role is going to be filled with new challenges and opportunities to continue reaching those who are using our roads.

I have been born and raised in Dunedin, Otago where I will be continuing as I study both Law and Health science degrees. I adore music and have played a variety of instruments with my double bass being the favourite. I play on our church worship team. I am also a keen hockey goalie, playing for the women’s club division here since I was 12 ! As a keen busy gal I spread myself between many volunteering projects, leading on camps, debating, enterprise, stock pitching and mentoring younger girls.

I am excited to be working with Jordan in the coming year on some projects. We are aiming to continue to make the connection between the National & Regional leaders and ourselves to generate a more collaborative discussion across our organisation. I also get the privilege of continuing my project on habit formation, breaking and how we can target youth with road safety messaging.

I look forward to hearing from you all and seeing more of what is to come during my time as the deputy board representative for 2025.