Sharon McLennan is a senior lecturer in citizenship and development studies at Massey University. She was a part of the team that designed and developed the Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters course in 2016–2017 and has been the distance offering co-ordinator from the beginning of the course, and the course co-ordinator since 2019. She has teaching and research interests in critical and decolonial approaches to the study and practice of international development and global citizenship.