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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Paora Messiah Te Hurihanganui
Paora Messiah Te Hurihanganui is of Ngāti Rangiwewehi (Te Arawa), Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa descent. He is currently the Chief Executive of Te Papa Tākaro o Te Arawa, an Iwi-mandated…
Kataraina Pipi
Kataraina Pipi is of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Hine descent. She is Auckland based, but works nationally as one of the National PATH Facilitation Trainers and was trained by Jack Pearpoint…
Dr Marewa Glover
Dr Glover is a Māori behavioural scientist with over 25 years of experience in tobacco control and over 100 scientific papers. She is recognized internationally for her advocacy on tobacco…
Danièle Hromek
Danièle (Budawang of the Yuin Nation) is a spatial designer, speculative designer and public artist, fusing design elements with installations, sculptural form and research. Her design practice works in the…
Dr Rebecca Kiddle
Rebecca Kiddle (Ngati Porou, Nga Puhi) is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. She has a PhD and MA in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes…
Professor Tahu Kukutai
Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tīpā, Ngati Mahanga, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupouri) is Professor of demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis where she leads the research programme Te Para…
Kirikowhai Mikaere
Kirikowhai Mikaere (Tuhourangi, Ngati Whakaue) is a leading Māori data and information specialist focused on harnessing information to empower iwi, hapū, whānau and community development. A consultant with over 15…
Dr Robin DiAngelo
Dr Robin DiAngelo’s area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis and she has a PhD in multicultural education. DiAngelo has been a consultant and trainer for…
Dr Penny Hagen
Co-Design Lead – The Southern Initiative Over the last 15 years Penny has designed and led a range of participatory and social innovation initiatives in Australia and New Zealand working…
Angie Tangaere
TSI Social Intrapreneur – The Social Initiative Angie Tangaere was born in Papakura and raised in South Auckland with whakapapa to Ngāti Porou on her father’s side and Pākeha from…
Dr Juan Marcellus Tauri
Juan is a member of the Ngati Porou iwi and a Senior Lecturer in criminology at the University of Waikato. Juan has carried out a number of research projects on…
Dr Diana Kopua
MBChB; Fellow RANZCP; Iwi: Ngāti Porou In the mid-1990’s Dr Diana Kopua developed Mahi a Atua, an indigenous approach that responds to ongoing issues regarding institutional racism and inequity for…