Penelope Borland's professional life has spanned the arts, film, TV and creative sector in advocacy and management, communications, law and journalism. She is Executive Director of the international postgraduate scholarship and cultural exchange organisation Fulbright New Zealand. An avid reader, music, theatre, dance and nature lover she attempts to maintain a small Greytown country garden, contending with the constant encroachments of brambles, thistles and army of marauding hungry rabbits