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Boyd Broughton
General manager, Te Taumata Hauora o Te Kahu o Taonui IMPB; Director of Health, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua
Exploring the implementation of Indigenous knowledge, customs, practices, spiritual beliefs, and frameworks as Māori advocate for autonomy in the delivery of greater health and social service outcomes for Māori.
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Holly Weir-Tikao
Project manager, TIPU MAHI, South Island Māori Health Workforce Development Project
Revitalizing knowledge and use of taonga puoro (traditional Māori musical instruments) to reindigenize approaches to mental and physical health and well-being.
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Inez White Faitala
Founder and director of Indigenuity Limited.
Creating knowledge pathways to homeownership for Māori families.
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Jewelz Petley
Specialist adviser, youth economy, Community Social Innovation Unit, Auckland Council; freelance social change specialist.
Working alongside local youth development organizations and key strategic partners, enabling rangatahi (youth) to find their own solutions to economic autonomy.
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Jo Voice
Manager, Whanganui Women's Refuge
Focusing passionately on whānau caregivers having equitable access to resources and support. Hoping to achieve this in a way that is collaborative and builds on existing strengths and safety.
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Judith (Huti) Watson
Executive director, Jureda
Developing an innovative, locally driven health promotion program to strengthen and develop Indigenous community-led approaches to health improvement, and increase community engagement and ownership of wellness.
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Katrina Smit
Founder, Black Rainbow, an Indigenous LGBTIQA+SB suicide-prevention foundation
Centering joy, abundance and whanaungatanga, being relationally connected, as the foundation for Mana Motuhake, Māori sovereignty and agency
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Kaye-Maree Dunn
Director, Making Everything Achievable, Ahau NZ Ltd; chief executive officer, Indigital Blockchain Ltd.
Working to lift the transformative capability of whānau, hapū and iwi to grow collective prosperity through Indigenous-centered design and emergent technologies.
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Keti Marsh-Solomon
Social change advocate and consultant
Recognizing the economic and cultural power of Māori communities. Creating a future where ancient practice meets modern tools in a way that is restorative and prosperous.
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Marcus Akuhata-Brown
Pou Whakatere, deputy secretary Māori, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Government
Leading a multidisciplinary business group, Ātea a Rangi, which incorporates the best of strategy, policy, capability development and relationship management to lead the Ministry in its priority to effectively partner with Māori.
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Michelle Johansson
Chief executive officer, Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ; creative director, Black Friars Theatre Company
Nurturing young Pasifika leaders for South Auckland through performance-based activism, heritage literacies and polycultural leadership.
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Pania Newton
Lawyer and activist for Māori land rights; co-founder of the campaign and battle to protect ancestral land at Ihumātao
Campaigning as an activist for Māori rights, environmental protection and constitutional transformation; recently co-led the #ProtectIhumatāo campaign to protect ancestral land in Auckland from corporate desecration.
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Rachael Galway
Manager, housing and well-being support, Kāinga Ora–Lower South Region
Exploring the experience of whānau involved in statutory child protection processes to develop resources and supports to improve their participation and equity.
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Samuel Hughes
Chief adviser, curriculum futures, Ministry of Education; and chair, Nōna Te Ao Charitable Trust
Empowering future Māori leaders by motivating rangatahi Māori into vocational training and educational pathways.
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Sarah Morris
Freelance social and systems change consultant; co-chair, HuiE community, Aotearoa
Progressing non-Indigenous allyship in the community sector in support of self-determined Māori authority in Aotearoa. Building commitment and capability in Pakeha-led community organizations to take anti-racist and decolonial actions.
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Susanne Roehr
Associate professor, Massey University
Using cohort studies and epidemiological methods to identify modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia as well as their social determinants. Conducting lifestyle interventions to mitigate dementia risk.
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Tania Pouwhare
General manager, community and social innovation, Auckland Council
Disrupting dominant economic discourse by demonstrating how entrepreneurial public servants can shape markets and enable just, inclusive, circular and regenerative economic development for the Māori and Pasifika urban diaspora.
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Tara Moala
Managing director, Rākau Tautoko, a social enterprise; community outcomes manager, Tāmaki Regeneration Company
Activating community-led regeneration through Indigenous and place-based practices; creating a new way forward to empower local community and government representatives to collaborate on a location-specific regenerative future.
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Te Awa Puketapu
Principal adviser, treaty partnerships, Abuse in Care, Royal Commission of Inquiry; chair person, Wainuiomata Community Board
Looking at the next 40 years of te reo Māori revitalization in our Kōhanga Reo; prioritizing language concepts, sovereignty and access and decolonizing how reo Māori is used in bilingual settings; empowering families and community.
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Te Taiawatea Moko-Painting
Pou Whakahaere Kaupapahere (Policy Manager), Te Tira Whakamātaki
Empowering whānau-led environmental policy and research, centering our whakapapa relationship with the environment while remedying the violent impacts of settler colonialism.
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Tiare "Deidre" Otene
Director, management and consulting team, KPMG
Specializing in partnering with Māori, public- and private-sector organizations, and communities to support major social reforms and investments that reduce inequities, increase inclusion and improve lives.
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Toni Boynton
Program coordinator, Te Tohu o Te Ora O Ngati Awa
Leading change by reclaiming spaces of Māori wāhine (women) leadership and participation in decision making that benefits people, environment, culture, economy, social factors and the long-term sustainability of our communities.
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