(Waikato, Te Ahiwaru, Ngāti Mahuta)

Maia Ratana

is a kaupapa Māori researcher in Māori housing, sustainable and innovative housing design, homelessness and equity in tertiary education. She is also a lecturer at the Unitec School of Architecture, a PhD student at AUT, and a māmā!

(Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga)

Jacqueline Paul

is a researcher and rangatahi leader with a background in landscape architecture and urban planning. She has a Masters from the University of Cambridge, and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.

(Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri o Hau, Cook Islands)

Hanna-Marie Monga

is an Architectural graduate and Research Assistant in the ‘Rangatahi ki te Kāinga’ research project, and rangatahi leader in housing research.

(Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tamatera)

Ngahuia Eruera

brings a wealth of business solutions and operational management expertise from her background and senior leadership roles in sports, tertiary education (Wānanga) and research sectors. A home-grown ‘pa’ girl she is passionate about whānau wellbeing and hauora Māori, in particular marae development. She is currently a board member of the Auckland Mataatua Society Inc and Te Tini o Toi Housing Trust.

(Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Rangitāne)

India Miro Logan-Riley

Brings a background in heritage and lived experience of climate injustice, drawing on a broad range of experiences from UN climate negotiations to harakeke roots work on #landback kaupapa with rangatahi Māori and Pasifika. India dreams of resilient communities where everyone is safe and joyful, and is excited to support those dreams into reality through their work in Generation Kāinga.

(Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe)

Irene Farnham

is a community based kaupapa Māori researcher with a background in social work. She has provided Māori cultural support, advice and education in various social service roles including within housing, youth, and whānau social work settings. Irene is currently a student of the Master’s of Applied Practice, Unitec.

(Taranaki)

Dr Catherine Mitchell

is a senior researcher with a PhD in higher education from the University of Auckland. Cat works across a range of projects including Marae Ora Kāinga Ora, Marae ki te Kāinga and Digital Twin: Ihumataao.

(Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi)

Rau Hoskins

is a renowned Māori practitioner, researcher and educator in Māori architecture, housing and cultural landscape design. As the founding Director of DesignTribe architects, a board member of Toi Ngāpuhi and Trustee of Te Matapihi, Rau works closely with iwi and agencies to advocate for better Māori housing solutions.

(Ngāti Kahu, Tūhoe)

Te Nia Matthews

Nia is an emerging Kaupapa Māori researcher with a focus on the taiao and how mātauranga Māori/Mātauranga – a – iwi can help us better understand the natural environment that surround our turangawaewae. Te Nia is also interested in how fundamental changes to New Zealand’s economic systems can better the wellbeing of whānau, hapu and iwi Māori.

(Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Waikato, Ngāti Mahuta)

Pania Newton

holds a Conjoint Degree in Law and Health Sciences and is currently completing her Master’s degree as part of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, The University of Melbourne. Well-known and highly respected for her leadership in the campaign to protect tribal whenua at Ihumatao, Pania is also a valued researcher with the MOKO and Rangatahi ki te Kainga projects.

(Te Arawa, Pare-Hauraki, Pare-Waikato)

Eruera Lee-Morgan

has 30 years’ experience working in broadcasting, radio, film, Television, and digital media as a practitioner, strategic leader, manager and more recently a board member of ‘Ngā Aho Whakaari’, (Māori film and Television industry. He also brings a strong voice for Māori communities and social development, language, and cultural revitalisation to everything he is involved in. Eruera chairs the Manukau Institute of Technology, Rūnanga board as well as his integral role as co-chair of Ngā Puna o Waiōrea (Western Springs College co-governance board).

(Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu, Ngai Takoto, Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara)

Joanne Gallagher

brings her strong sense of manaaki and organisational skills to her work as Executive Assistant (EA) and project administration. Jo is passionate about her people, her whänau, iwi and hapü, she is the chairperson for her local Kōhanga Reo.

(Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Whakaeke)

Bernadette Lee Te Young

is an experienced administrator and kindly supports our kaimahi in a wide range of administrative and operational tasks.

(Taranaki, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāi Te Rangi)

Ariana Hond

Ariana is an emerging Māori researcher in the midst of postgraduate study within the field of Psychology, passionate about Indigenous psychological approaches and rangatahi – led kaupapa. She is also a Tuākana Coordinator in the School of Psychology at UoA.

(Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa)

Rhieve Grey

Rhieve Grey (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Po rou, Ngāti Raukawa) is a researcher with Purangakura on the Generation Kāinga project. He has an academic background in Public Policy, having recently completed Master’s studies at the University of Oxford. He also is a researcher for Te Kuaka, a NZ – based foreign policy think tank, where he focuses on Māori and Indigenous engagement in foreign policymaking.

Elyjana Roach

Maui Brennan

(Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa)

Pauline Hiroti