GVN Foundation Staff

Courtney Montague

Courtney Montague has been working with GVN since 2004 after she graduated from The American University of Paris, France. Courtney runs The Global Volunteer Network Foundation, the American fundraising branch of GVN and the branch responsible for Eat So They Can. Currently she is project manager for Eat So They Can.

Courtney loves to eat, write, read, hike, relax with friends and family and watch movies. Courtney's favorite colour is red and, being an American born and bred, she loves Mexican Food.

Lauren McMahon

As our Media and Communications Co-ordinator, and keen trekker, this girl not only talks the talk, she walks the walk having conquered Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa as part of a GVN fundraising trek.

Landing in New Zealand mid March 2007 after a little hop-skip-jump from Melbourne, Australia, her background is in environmental communications and she splits her time working between GVN and GVN-Foundation. Lauren is happiest climbing mountains, chasing rainbows, and seeing people live a fulfilling life with a big smile on their face. Stick your head in the GVN office and you will most likely see Lauren either sliding across the room on her swivel chair, peeling a piece of exotic fruit at her desk, or debating the comparative linguistics of footwear with her Kiwi, American, and South African buddies. This Aussie firmly believes a comfortable, rubber, foot apparatus is called a thong – not a jandle, not a flip-flop, not a slophie!

Lauren McLoughlin

The newest addition to the GVN Foundation team arrived in May 2008 all the way from Scotland. Mainly involved with ESTC, Lauren does all sorts of things from the website to accounting to spreading the word about the fundraiser.

With a joint honours degree in English Literature and Scots Law, Lauren is a former GVN volunteer having spent her summer vacations from university in Nepal on the orphanage programme. These experiences had a profound impact and she came back with more than a fondness for Dal Bhaat and ricksaw rides. In addition to most things Nepali, this lass also loves spending time with her family and friends, travelling, bungy jumping, snowboarding, reading, comedy films and harbours a dream to one day travel around Italy on a Vespa.

Libby Wann

Libby is a recent transplant from Denver, Colorado, USA. She splits her time working for both GVN as a programs Coordinator, for the GVN Foundation as Sponsorship Coordinator and Eat So They Can as resource Coordinator.

This is Libby's second time living in the 'land of the long white cloud' having previously spent time on the South Island during her time at University where she completed a degree in Cultural Anthropology. Since arriving in New Zealand Libby has shown a special aptitude for driving a minivan on the left hand side of the road. She has also discovered a new found love of fish and chips, google desktop, excel spreadsheets and more recently, blogging.

When not at the GVN office or sitting in a cafe drinking absurd amounts of coffee, Libby can be found trying to climb the tallest mountain in the area, pretending she was the first to discover an obscure band, or watching Kath and Kim. She also enjoys any activities that require a passport or spray-paint, a hot glue gun, magazine clippings, crochet needles, exacto knives, sharpie pens and glue sticks.

Graham Fyfe

Located in the office next door to ESTC HQ, Graham sometimes lends a hand with the website. He has degrees in history and accounting, and has been part of the Global Volunteer Network team since 2003. When not working, his interests include rabbitry, checking out arcane music and watching cricket.