The world's youngest female head of state — famously a working mom, too — also gave a brief shout-out to local hero Taika Waititi while championing New Zealand's leadership role on issues of representation.
New Zealand's inaugural Power of Inclusion Summit got off to a rousing start in Auckland Thursday morning with an opening keynote speech from the country's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the world's youngest female head of state.
The two-day Power of Inclusion Summit is set to feature over 60 speakers from various areas of the entertainment industry, many of them people of color, women, inter-faith, indigenous, LGBTQ+ or people with a disability.
"We all have such yarns," she explained, "but what we need is to get to a time and a place when they are just that: stories confined to history books, where our industries are places we would never hesitate to tell our kids to be and to work, because we know they will be valued."The PM then shared a quote from U.S. activist and writer Rebecca Solnit: "We are as a culture moving onto a future with more people, more voices and more possibilities.
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