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Rowena Dunn
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Whai Maia Ltd
Research Development, Coordination and Management
My background is Education - Teaching, Management, Facilitation.
Rowena Dunn
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Dr Erena Wikaire
Ngāpuhi , Ngāti Hine, Te Hikutu , Te Kapōtai
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Director/ Founder Te Ramaroa
Dr. Erena Wikaire (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Te Hikutu, Te Kapotai) is a Kaupapa Māori researcher with over 20 years’…
Dr Erena Wikaire
Dr. Erena Wikaire (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Te Hikutu, Te Kapotai) is a Kaupapa Māori researcher with over 20 years’ experience in Māori and Indigenous health. She is Director of Te Ramaroa Ltd and a Hōhua Tutengaehe Postdoctoral Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Her PhD focused on the re-normalisation of Rongoā Māori, and her Master's explored success factors for Māori and Pacific health students. Erena’s research interests include Rongoā Māori and Indigenous healing, Māori health workforce development, mental health and addiction, and performance sport. She brings deep kaupapa Māori… -
Dr. Liz Brown
University of Canterbury
Kaihautū Matua| Executive Director
Liz Brown is Kaihautū Matua|Executive Director in Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury’s Office of…
Dr. Liz Brown
Liz Brown is Kaihautū Matua|Executive Director in Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury’s Office of Treaty Partnership.The office was created to reflect UC’s commitment to being a Te Tiriti o Waitangi led university and builds on its commitment to strengthen Māori leadership and relationships.Liz works alongside the Pou Whakarae, Professor Te Maire Tau, to lead strategic Māori development, strengthen and enable the exploration and demonstration of academic achievement in all disciplines, and uphold the mana and aspirations of tangata whenua.Liz brings three decades of… -
Sheree Jahnke-Waitoa
Lincoln University
Director of The Office of Māori & Pasifika Development
Experienced Radio Broadcaster with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in…
Sheree Jahnke-Waitoa
Experienced Radio Broadcaster with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Coaching, Audio Engineering, Audio Post Production, Audio Editing, and Event Management. Strong media and communication professional with a CERT. in Applied Small Business focused in Business Administration and Management, General from Te Wananga O Aotearoa. -
Holden Hohaia
Ngāti Maru, Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika
Wellington City Council
Mana Whenua Representative for Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika
Holden Hohaia has been a trustee for multiple boards including Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o te Ika, Te Aro Papakainga…
Holden Hohaia
Holden Hohaia has been a trustee for multiple boards including Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o te Ika, Te Aro Papakainga and Opau Urupā. He has been on Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru Trust for eight years and Chair for five of those. Holden’s focus and contribution to Ngāti Maru is to facilitate open and honest communication amongst ourselves as a collective, and to foster leadership amongst others. -
Professor David Tipene-Leach
Ngāti Kere, Ngāti Manuhiri
Eastern Institute of Technology
Māori and Indigenous Research Professor
Formerly a Hawke’s Bay doctor, David was appointed Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research at EIT in early 2017.He…
Professor David Tipene-Leach
Formerly a Hawke’s Bay doctor, David was appointed Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research at EIT in early 2017.He was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and health in 2018.From Pōrangahau and of Ngāti Kere and Ngāti Manuhiri descent, David has spent his working life promoting Māori health. Celebrated for the work he has undertaken to prevent Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI), he worked with weavers and Maori midwives in developing the wahakura woven flax bassinet and “its little sister”, the plastic Pepi-Pod. The subsequent Safe Sleep programme… -
Anaru (Andrew) Luke
Cawthron Institute
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua and Tumuaki Te Kāhui Āio
Anaru Luke joined Cawthron in 2019 to lead Cawthron’s Māori Business Strategy, which aims to enhance Cawthron’s Māori…
Anaru (Andrew) Luke
Anaru Luke joined Cawthron in 2019 to lead Cawthron’s Māori Business Strategy, which aims to enhance Cawthron’s Māori capability profile internally and externally. Anaru provides organisational leadership and strategic guidance for mātauranga and Kaupapa Māori for Cawthron staff.Anaru has long experience in science research, with a focus on marine and fisheries including as a member of the Kahui Māori of the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge. In 2019 he was awarded a Masters in Technological Futures. He has worked as Executive Director and Director of Māori Education at the Nelson… -
Vasiti Margaret Palavi
Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Vasiti Margaret Palavi
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Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Her research is an invitation to return to aroha as an intellectual discipline, to ancestral intelligence as method, and to gentle insistence as a transformative force. Working across Kaupapa Māori, Indigenous child development, Māori mindfulness (mauritau), educational psychology, and placefulness, Joni explores what it means for mokopuna and whānau to thrive — not in theory alone, but in lived, intergenerational, and embodied ways. Her work centres… -
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa
Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
Rautaki MAI Te Kupenga
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research…
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre at Unitec. With a background in Exercise Physiology, Psychology, and Public Health, her current research centres on Mana Wahine scholarship. Recent work includes an exploration of Māori and Indigenous women’s embodied practices and physical activity in te taiao as a means for connecting, communicating, and healing. Deborah is also passionate about building the capability and capacity of Māori and Indigenous (future) scholars and providing spaces for Indigenous…