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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Dr S. ‘Apo’ Aporosa
Dr S. ‘Apo’ Aporosa is maternally related to the village of Naduri in Macuata, Fiji. He is the 2019 New Zealand Health Research Council Sir Thomas Davis Te Patu Kite…
Sharon Armstrong
Sharon Armstrong (Ngati Kahungunu) is a justice worker, author and public speaker. She has shared her experience of romance fraud in her book ‘Organised Deception’, launched in March 2018, to…
Maureen Gillon
Maureen chairs the Shine – The Porirua Education Initiative. She is a trustee of Social & Civic Policy Institute, Wellington. From July – December 2013, Maureen was International Research Resident at the…
Liz Weaver
Liz is a Vice President with Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement. In this role, she leads the Vibrant Communities Canada team provides coaching, leadership and support to community…
Sita Selupe
Sita Selupe is of Tongan and Niuean descent, married with four children in Weymouth, South Auckland. Sita is a Primary trained teacher, CEO and Co-founder of The Rise UP Trust established…
Jenny Gill
In 2004 Jennifer became CEO of ASB Community Trust after 10 years as Executive Director of Fulbright NZ. Her career in philanthropy began in 1985 when Sir Roy McKenzie appointed…
Margy-Jean Malcolm
Margy-Jean Malcolm is a former senior lecturer with Unitec’s Not-For-Profit Management programme, who has worked on a number of projects since the 1970s in community development, not for profit management, leadership,…
Kate McKegg
Kate McKegg has worked in the fields of evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, policy and public sector management since the late 1980s. In 2002 she started The Knowledge Institute Ltd,…