Catherine Healy (activist)

Dame
Catherine Healy
Healy in 2018
Born1955 or 1956 (age 68–69)[1]
New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
OccupationActivist
Known forSex workers' rights activism

Dame Catherine Alice Healy DNZM (born 1956)[2] is a New Zealand sex workers' rights activist, field researcher and former sex worker working for decriminalisation of prostitution and generally for the improvement of the sex work profession. She is the national coordinator and a founding member of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective (NZPC).[3]

  1. ^ "National Portrait: Catherine Healy – The Exponent". Stuff. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2018. I was born in 1956
  2. ^ Wilton, Caren, ed. (2018). "Catherine Healy". My Body, My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change. Otago University Press.
  3. ^ "Prostitutes Collective disputes trafficking claim". Radio New Zealand. 4 July 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2012.