Robyn Edie/Stuff
For Southern Institute of Technology board chairwoman Alison Broad the mix of hard-case high achievement celebrated at 2020 Telford graduates parade was a real highlight.
There’s a vibrancy to Alison Broad’s vocabulary. She talks of how 2020 started with the “discombobulating” impact of southern skies coloured by the Australian bushfires, and how this was just the start of “kaleidoscope” of changes throughout the year. But she’s not a woman to be associated with dizziness, disorientation or bedazzlement. Nothing if not purposeful, this one. Which is just as well. Because she now chairs the board of one of Southland’s most crucial bodies, the Southern Institute of Technology, where once she was a business studies and English-as-second-language tutor, before becoming an empowering figure in southern education and community initiatives.