 I'm Moira Clooney. I'm in my second year of a Masters of Social and Community Leadership. I work also full-time at the Mental Health Foundation as Manager of Research Development and Advocacy. I really want to be involved in making New Zealander more accepting and more equal, more welcoming place. I've been working in the non-profit sector for over a decade now in a range of different leadership roles and the programme's really given me a chance to step back and reflect on that, on my role as a leader and on the way that we design and develop programmes with different communities. I'm studying this Masters part-time while I work full-time, so that can be a bit of a juggle. I really appreciated with this programme how it's really designed quite well around work. The initial papers are partly online and partly taught in block courses. That was easy for me. It's easier for me to take a day off every now and then as opposed to trying to fit lectures around work. What I've learnt in the Masters so far has already impacted on my work here at the Mental Health Foundation. It's given me a chance to deepen my skills around evaluation and around social innovation. It takes more than just compassion and caring to make a difference. I'm looking at focusing my thesis topic around community-led responses to suicide prevention with a specific focus on rainbow communities. The research skills can really help to develop sustainable and effective ways of dealing with social problems.