Draft:Camden Howitt

Camden Howitt is the co-founder and Programmes Director of New Zealand based charity Sustainable Coastlines. He is also a founder of the Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

In 2008, Camden and his friend Sam Judd established the charity Sustainable Coastlines, designed to reduce plastic pollution across New Zealand through beach clean-ups, education and litter data collection. He was awarded The 2023 Environmental Hero of the Year Te Toa Taiao o te Tau for his work with Sustainable Coastlines and his wider involvement in the conversation of New Zealand coastlines.

Education
Camden graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Applied Science and Bachelor of Arts. His degree focused on Design for Technology culminating in an Honours dissertation on Understanding Recycling: Influencing Public Participation through Communication”. Camden also studied Spanish while at university, allowing him to travel to Mexico on exchange, where he met his eventual co-founder to Sustainable Coastlines, Sam Judd.