Dr Hauiti Hakopa is a surveyor and Mātauranga Māori researcher. He has a PhD in Mātauranga Māori: Pūrakau from Te Awanuiārangi and a PhD in Spatial Information Systems from the University of Otago. He will share his knowledge on his framework of practice – Sovereignty - and mahi whai.
Chanel Clarke - Curator, Waitangi Treaty Grounds
Teina is a co-designer of Tihei-Wa Mauri Ora with Vivienne Body (1945-2016). Teina lives in Ahipara in the far north with her husband and children. She is an experienced Mana Enhancing Counsellor & Addictions Practitioner.
Christina grew up in Glen Innes, East Auckland #GItillidie After studying Māori Business she became especially interested in Indigenous entrepreneurship and how local solutions could solve many of the problems humanity faces today.
We have 60 years combined recovery, kaupapa whanau oranga raising our tamariki in recovery. Our workspaces have been in an alcohol and drug residential treatment Centre, Papa Taumata and alcohol and other, drug treatment court, Te Whare Whakapiki Wairua.
Experiences of twenty-plus years from my first admission were thirty years of continuous psychiatric admissions.
“Dad was an inventor,” says Billie Jo Hohepa-Ropiha, recounting her childhood in the Northland settlement of Moerewa. It’s a US rust belt-style factory town, full of Māori families whose multiple generations have lived and died within a 5km radius of the AFFCO meat processing plant for the past hundred years. Childhood was a lesson in sustainability for Hohepa-Ropiha and her family, but this wasn’t unusual in the small Māori town where DIY was often the only option.
Ngamaru Raerino, Maria Baker. Gilbert Taurua, Tui Taurua, Wayne Blissett. Chair Panel: Moe Milne
Kirsty has worked in Māori health service delivery and national workforce development for over 20 years. She was the inaugural Coordinator of the Te Rau Puawai scholarship programme at Massey University in Palmerston North and foundational Chief Executive Officer of Te Rau Matatini, establishing a culture of success for innovative and transformational Māori health workforce development programmes.
Kirimatao Paipa has a wealth of knowledge and skills from her decades of work as a family violence practitioner, Kaupapa Māori researcher and evaluator. She is currently studying a Masters of Applied Indigenous Knowledge through Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and also teaches te reo Māori. Kirimatao is genuine and authentic.
I am a direct descendant of my maunga tūpuna; Taranaki. This kōrero and truth is passed down from my kaumatua and kuia of the Tongaaw’ikau w’anau. It reminds us of our inherent connections to Te Taiao (The Natural World), that we are all bound by the same mauri (lifeforce) . Kaitiakitanga is transformative; influencing the balance of mauri (lifeforce) and āhua (form). A perpetually applied practice that envelopes and permeates all engagement in any field.
An examination of the systemic injustices and potential for an evidence-based framework to be developed to leverage equity for iwi Māori.
Moe and her tamariki will share te tuku i ngā taonga, their journey on the intergenerational knowledge transfer.
