Jazial CrossleyJazial Crossley

Jazial Crossley is a writer and strategic communications contractor, and formerly a business journalist at National Business Review and Fairfax Media. She used to write about music for several publications including Rip It Up. She holds an MBA from Victoria University of Wellington, a BA from The University of Auckland and a journalism diploma.

Yes, we need more diversity on boards – and that isn’t anti-white men

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New Zealand has a diversity problem in governance and business leadership. That is just a fact, argues Jazial Crossley. Only 19% of NZX directors are female. Only one company on the NZX 50 currently has a woman chief executive. This is not a New Zealand problem – just 4% of Fortune 500 companies have women … Read more

Where would I grow up today?

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Jazial Crossley grew up in Auckland in the ’80s, the daughter of a teenage solo mother who spent her early years on the DPB. In this essay for the War for Auckland project, she describes her childhood, and wonders what might have happened to her had she been born today. When I was growing up … Read more