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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Dr Kathie Irwin
Dr Kathie Irwin MNZM, PHD, MInstD is a third generation Māori, woman, educator. Her whakapapa is traced from diverse sources: Ngāti Porou, Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu, the Orkney Islands, Scotland and…
Dr Chelsea Grootveld
Dr Chelsea Grootveld is Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui, Whakatōhea and Tuhourangi. She is passionate about whānau-centred and whānau-led education, health and wellbeing. She has a strong commitment…
Jerome Kavanagh
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu me te rohe o Mōkai Pātea. Grammy award winning featured soloist and Maori musical instrument specialist Jerome Kavanagh (Poutama) hails from the Mokai Patea, Maniapoto, Kahungunu…
Dr Irene Ayallo
Dr Irene Ayallo is a social practitioner (Registered Social Worker) and educator. She currently teaches social work and community development at Unitec (Social Practice). Her teaching and practice in this…
Dr Sara Kindon
Sara Kindon has been supporting and carrying out participatory research with people from refugee backgrounds since 2005. This research has mostly involved refugee-background youth and women collaborating with her postgraduate…
Batool Arif
Batool Arif, originally from Pakistan, is a mother of two lovely girls and a wife to a very supportive husband. She has lived in Wellington, New Zealand for the last…
Dr Zhiyan Basharati
Dr Zhiyan Basharati is an activist, advocate, champion and academic. She was born and raised in a Kurdish refugee camp. Since she arrived in New Zealand has established and managed many…
Suzanne Andrew
Suzanne Andrew has worked in project and emergency management roles, and in a regional health planning role for the Midland DHBs. Suzanne now works as change manager lead for Innovation…
Jeph Mathias
Jeph, a New Zealand/Indian has been messing around with complex human/environmental issues all his life. Long ago he taught in an illegal multiracial school in apartheid South Africa and volunteered…
Dr Rebecca Trelease
Rebecca Trelease (Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) is a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, teaching on the courses Intercultural Communication and Mahitahi / Collaborative Practices (facilitating group work through a Te…
Dr Angelique Nairn
Dr Angelique Nairn is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication Studies (SCS) at Auckland University of Technology. As a graduate of the Bachelor of Communication Studies, she went…
Ngapera Riley
Ngapera believes everybody should have access to good information, and that knowing how to find and use data is vital to solving our country’s biggest problems. She cares about everyone…