Dr. Moana Jackson

Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Porou

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Ngāhuia Murphy

Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Tuhoe, Ngāti Kahungungu   Ngāhuia is a researcher, educator and performance artist. In 2011 she gained her Master of Arts (First Class Honours) with a groundbreaking study of Māori pre-colonial stories, ceremonies and practices regarding menstruation. She received the Waikato University Masters Research Award for that work. She is also a recipient of the Maori Graduate Excellence Award and a Waikato University Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar in the field of Māori poetry and contemporary Māori dance.   Ngāhuia is the author of two books; Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Māori World (2013) and Waiwhero: He Whakahirahiratanga o te Ira Wahine: A Celebration of Womanhood (2014), a bilingual sexual health resource for schools and community groups.

Ngāhuia is committed to performing research that is transformative, empowering and motivated by cultural reclaimation in the belief that the teachings of our ancestors contain wisdoms that provide solutions to present day challenges. She facilitates a range of workshops, is collaborating on an opera in te reo Māori and is embarking on her doctorate at Waikato University.

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Scott Campbell

Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa.   Scott is a skilled strategic communicator, with experience in political, media, investor and iwi relations. As a Consulting Partner in a leading Australasian communications consultancy he has worked with several of New Zealand’s Top 20 companies, government departments and iwi.

Scott is also a Director of Campbell Squared Communications Ltd, a consultancy he owns with his wife Angela. Campbell Squared delivers strategic advice in public relations, internal and external communications, media training and government relations to Maori organisations and iwi. He also works with corporate and non-Maori organisations, advising them on Maori and Treaty of Waitangi issues.   Scott’s earlier career was as a political and Maori affairs reporter for TV3’s flagship 3News team, where he covered two General Elections and reported from conflict zones such as East Timor and the Solomon Islands.   In 2009, he was one of only 20 people from around the world invited to attend the Inauguration of President Barack Obama as an official guest of the US State Department.

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Marama Davidson

Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou   Marama was an Advisor with the Human Rights Commission for ten years from 2003 to 2013. In her Advisor role she had a focus on working with young people, Māori communities and women. Marama became a human rights and social justice advocate across a range of issues relating to the health and well-being of our children,  our whānau and our whenua. She grew a profile as a political commentator through activism, blogging and social media work.

Marama was also the Chief Panellist on the Glenn Inquiry into Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. Marama chaired the majority of the panels that received the stories of 500 domestic violence survivors and frontline workers. Those voices are represented in The People’s Report released June 2014.   Marama lives in East Tamaki and with her husband has six children. She is an avid outdoors enthusiast, a wannabe poet and a keen writer on political issues when she can find the time.

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Ani Mikaere

Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou   Ani is currently Kaihautū of Te Whare Whakatupu Mātauranga at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, where she also tutors in the Ahunga Tikanga programme. Her recent publications include He Rukuruku Whakaaro: Colonising Myths, Māori Realities.

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Te Kani Kingi

Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko

Dr Te Kani Kingi is an Associate Professor and Director Maori at Massey University in Wellington. He has a specialist interest in mental health research, psychometrics, and Maori health. He has formally been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, the National Ethics Advisory Committee, the National Health Committee, the Public Health Advisory Committee, and past Chair of the New Zealand Mental Health Commission.  He is currently a member of Statistics New Zealand’s Mäori Advisory board, the Health Research Council and AKO Aotearoa Assessment Committees, the New Zealand Pharmacy Council, Nga Pae o te Maramatanga’s International Research Advisory Panel, and Chair of the Te Rau Puawai mental health scholarship scheme.

He was born and raised in Poroporo (near Whakatāne) and was educated at St Stephen’s School in Bombay, Sth Auckland.  He attended both Waikato and Massey University.

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