Our Team Our inaugural directors bring together a wealth of expertise, experience and enthusiasm to Pūrangakura.

Our Directors

Dr Jenny Lee-Morgan

(Waikato, Te Ahiwaru, Ngāti Mahuta)

Ngahuia Eruera

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

Rau Hoskins

(Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi)

Eruera Lee-Morgan

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

(Waikato, Te Ahiwaru, Ngāti Mahuta)

Dr Jenny Lee-Morgan

is a senior kaupapa Māori researcher. Formerly the inaugural Director of Ngā Wai a te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre, Unitec, Jenny has led several large community centred research projects. Currently she is also a Trustee of Te Ahiwaru Trust and Te Motu o Hiaroa Charitable Trust.

(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 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.

(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).

Each person is a leader in their respective professions and are well regarded in te ao Māori with whānau, hapū, marae, iwi and communities. The directors work collectively to ensure the kaupapa of each project is honoured and strengthened. Guided by the values and practices of our tūpuna, the directors provide the tuapapa for the work of Pūrangakura.

Our Awesome Kaimahi

Maia Ratana

(Waikato, Te Ahiwaru, Ngāti Mahuta)

Jacqueline Paul

(Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga)

Hanna-Marie Monga

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

Dr Catherine Mitchell

(Taranaki)

Kim Himoana Penetito

(Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Tamaterā, Raukawa)

Dr Jo Mane

(Ngāpuhi)

Whitiao Paul

(Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Ruanui)

Pania Newton

(Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Waikato, Ngāti Mahuta)

Irene Farnham

(Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe)

Joanne Gallagher

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

Bernadette Lee Te Young

(Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Whakaeke)

Kate Lee

(Ngāti Hine)

India Miro Logan-Riley

(Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Rangitāne)

Te Nia Matthews

(Ngāti Kahu, Tūhoe)

Ariana Hond

(Taranaki, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāi Te Rangi)

Rhieve Grey

(Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa)

(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.

(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 Hauā, Ngāti Tamaterā, Raukawa)

Kim Himoana Penetito

has a Masters in Māori Development, and a background in Kaupapa Māori community development, training and education. She is the co-director of Hauā Partnerships and a researcher at Pūrangakura.

(Ngāpuhi)

Dr Jo Mane

is a senior kaupapa Māori researcher. As part of a community-led initiative, Jo was integral in the establishment of tribal radio in Ngapuhi. Her Masters study documented a history of the radio station Tautoko FM and her doctoral thesis studied ‘The Impact of Māori Language Broadcasting on Māori Language Survival’.

(Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Ruanui)

Whitiao Paul

is a highly experienced social worker. She is currently the Team Leader of Manaaki Tangata programme at Te Puea Memorial Marae. She is also a marae-based researcher in the ‘Marae ki te Kāinga’ research project that continues to investigate and foreground the work of marae in assisting our most vulnerable whānau.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(Ngāti Hine)

Kate Lee

has a BA in Art History, Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies from the University of Auckland. She is the research administrator of several research projects that form the Urban Intergenerational Kāinga Innovations programme of work, funded by BBHTC, National Science Challenge.

(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 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.

(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.