Lucy is a Principal Adviser in the Mobility and Safety team at the Ministry of Transport, where she has worked since November 2018. The Ministry is the Government’s lead policy adviser on transport. A key focus of her role is developing the new road safety strategy for New Zealand, and the initial action plan. Lucy has worked in a range of strategic policy roles across central government, including early childhood education policy at the Ministry of Education, Resource Management Act reform and climate change policy at the Ministry for the Environment, and on the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction.

After surviving an abusive childhood and repeated trauma in the Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand, Billie Jordan used these experiences as a catalyst for changing the mindsets and transforming the lives of the senior citizens in her community. She established The Hip Op-eration Crew; a hip-hop dance group consisting of members aged 65 to 98 years old. They are in the Guinness World Records as the oldest dance group in the world and have performed at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas, to an audience of 15,000 at the Taipei Arena in Taiwan and to crowds of fans in Japan. A feature documentary film called Hip Hop-eration about Billie's mission to get her elderly neighbours to the World Hip Hop championships has been playing in cinemas all over the world and has won many prestigious awards. Billie was the New Zealand Woman of the Year in 2016, is a recipient of a Queens Honour (MNZM) and received the New Zealander of the Year award in the Local Hero category in 2015. She has done a Ted Talk and now Hollywood have purchased her life rights and plan on making a film about her story. Billie's story shows us how we can all play a role in inspiring and influencing others to achieve the seemingly impossible, to look at obstacles creatively and challenge the norms, and how to focus on the end goal to a point where others will be inspired to follow your trail-blazing and support your mission rather than try and hold you back. With the right mindset anything is possible - including zero road deaths!