Ann Brower teaches environmental science at the University of Canterbury.  In environmental circles on the South Island, she is perhaps best known for her work on high country tenure review.  In 2022, the Royal Society of NZ awarded her the Charles Fleming Medal for Environmental Achievement for a decade and a half of research and speaking truth to power that, at very long last, finally brought an end to the world’s quietest rort.  And in 2018 Universities NZ awarded her the Critic and Conscience of Society Award for her work to change the Building Act.   In short, to those who wish to defend the status quo, Ann is one of the most annoying lecturers in the country.  North and South magazine called her the ‘chirpy anti-Christ’; National Business Review called her a ‘red rag to a Brower’; and Federated Farmers called her a ‘socialist infection’.