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Dr Erena Wikaire
Dr. Erena Wikaire (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Te Hikutu, Te Kapotai) is a Kaupapa Māori researcher with over 20 years’ experience in Māori and Indigenous health. She is Director of Te Ramaroa Ltd and a Hōhua Tutengaehe Postdoctoral Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Her PhD focused on the re-normalisation of Rongoā Māori, and her Master's explored success factors for Māori and Pacific health students. Erena’s research interests include Rongoā Māori and Indigenous healing, Māori health workforce development, mental health and addiction, and performance sport. She brings deep kaupapa Māori…
Dr. Liz Brown
Liz Brown is Kaihautū Matua|Executive Director in Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury’s Office of Treaty Partnership.The office was created to reflect UC’s commitment to being a Te Tiriti o Waitangi led university and builds on its commitment to strengthen Māori leadership and relationships.Liz works alongside the Pou Whakarae, Professor Te Maire Tau, to lead strategic Māori development, strengthen and enable the exploration and demonstration of academic achievement in all disciplines, and uphold the mana and aspirations of tangata whenua.Liz brings three decades of…
Sheree Jahnke-Waitoa
Experienced Radio Broadcaster with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Coaching, Audio Engineering, Audio Post Production, Audio Editing, and Event Management. Strong media and communication professional with a CERT. in Applied Small Business focused in Business Administration and Management, General from Te Wananga O Aotearoa.
Holden Hohaia
Holden Hohaia has been a trustee for multiple boards including Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o te Ika, Te Aro Papakainga and Opau Urupā. He has been on Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Maru Trust for eight years and Chair for five of those. Holden’s focus and contribution to Ngāti Maru is to facilitate open and honest communication amongst ourselves as a collective, and to foster leadership amongst others.
Professor David Tipene-Leach
Formerly a Hawke’s Bay doctor, David was appointed Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research at EIT in early 2017.He was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and health in 2018.From Pōrangahau and of Ngāti Kere and Ngāti Manuhiri descent, David has spent his working life promoting Māori health. Celebrated for the work he has undertaken to prevent Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI), he worked with weavers and Maori midwives in developing the wahakura woven flax bassinet and “its little sister”, the plastic Pepi-Pod. The subsequent Safe Sleep programme…
Anaru (Andrew) Luke
Anaru Luke joined Cawthron in 2019 to lead Cawthron’s Māori Business Strategy, which aims to enhance Cawthron’s Māori capability profile internally and externally. Anaru provides organisational leadership and strategic guidance for mātauranga and Kaupapa Māori for Cawthron staff.Anaru has long experience in science research, with a focus on marine and fisheries including as a member of the Kahui Māori of the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge. In 2019 he was awarded a Masters in Technological Futures. He has worked as Executive Director and Director of Māori Education at the Nelson…
Dr Susanna Ragnhild Andersdatter Siri
Susanna Ragnhild Andersdatter Siri, or Fimben-áilluántte ja Gáren-niillasmáhteristena Susánna, is a Northern Sámi researcher at the Centre for Sámi Health Research (CSHR) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She holds a PhD in epidemiology and studies cardiovascular health among Norwegian Sámi populations. Her research explores the intersections of health sciences, Sámi research ethics, and data governance, with particular attention to Sámi self-determination and culturally sensitive research practices. She co-founded the GIDA-Sápmi network, which promotes Sámi research data sovereignty…
Dr Coen Hird
Coen Hird is a trawlwoolway pakana related to northeast lutruwita (Briggs, Johnson, Hearps family) and is accountable to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community. Coen grew up as a visitor to many lands in so-called Australia and currently is living on Yuggera land at Tulmur. Coen is an ARC DAATSIA Fellow in the School of the Environment at The University of Queensland. His research and teaching spans environmental sciences, animal ecology, Indigenous studies, and science and technology studies. Coen's work currently spans several connected areas: native stingless bee science; herpetofauna and…
Professor Elisa Loncon Antileo
Born in Lefweluan, a Mapuche community in Wallmapu, Chile, Elisa is a native speaker of Mapuzugun, the Mapuche Indigenous language. She is a professor in the Department of Education at the University of Santiago in Chile. She holds a PhD in Humanities from Leiden University (the Netherlands), a PhD in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and a Master's degree in Linguistics from the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2021, Elisa served as President of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. She received the René Cassin International Human Rights Prize…
Emalani Case
Emalani Case is a lecturer in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa, the School of Māori and Pacific Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland. As a Kanaka Maoli activist, teacher, and writer, she is deeply engaged in issues of Indigenous rights and representation, settler colonialism and decolonisation, militarism and demilitarisation, and environmental and social justice. Her work, including her teaching, is motivated by a desire to draw on Pacific and Indigenous knowledges and histories to reflect upon the past, promote action and solidarity in the present, and envision…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Her research is an invitation to return to aroha as an intellectual discipline, to ancestral intelligence as method, and to gentle insistence as a transformative force. Working across Kaupapa Māori, Indigenous child development, Māori mindfulness (mauritau), educational psychology, and placefulness, Joni explores what it means for mokopuna and whānau to thrive — not in theory alone, but in lived, intergenerational, and embodied ways. Her work centres…
Dr. Tania Canas
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory, and decoloniality through community-led creative and performance practices. Her research is grounded in arts-based, practice-led, and participatory methodologies that foreground lived experience. Her lived experience as a Salvadorian refugee who grew up in Naarm on unceded Kulin Territory informs her scholarship with a deeply personal, ethical, and critical perspective, shaping her commitment to relational and community-embedded modes of knowledge-making. In 2023, the…
Professor Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
I am an Indigenous scholar from South America and a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, an endangered variety spoken in the central highlands of Peru. My life and work are deeply informed by my cultural and linguistic roots, which ground my scholarship, teaching, and activism. I earned my Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics/Sociolinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I specialized in the study of language, power, and identity in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Before that, I received my M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University, an experience that provided…
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Dr. Gloria T. Emeagwali is a Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University.In 'africahistory.net' we present various perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites
Dr. Isla Emery-Whittington
Isla Emery-Whittington is an occupational therapist and consultant. Her research examines western theories and notions of everyday occupations as shaped and produced by colonisation. The research aims to reveal taken for granted colonial notions of daily occupations and privilege exploration of a Kaupapa Māori theory of everyday occupations as accessible spaces of healing and connections to kaitiakitanga.
Dolores Figueroa Romero
Dr. Dolores Figueroa Romero is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and Ethnology (CIESAS) in Mexico City, and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University, Toronto, Canada. She received a PhD in Sociology from York University in 2011. She is a young scholar with extensive involvement in academia, activism and policy advocacy in the fields of politics, gender, and ethnicity in Latin America. Dolores’s research work focuses on the intersections of transnational feminism, Indigenous women’s…
Professor Ayano Gizano
Ayano Ginoza is a Professor in the Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability at the University of the Ryukyus. Her work looks at cultures of militarism and feminist decolonial work in Okinawa. She currently focuses on issues of performativity and indigeneities of militarized islands cultures as articulated in Okinawan diasporic communities in California.
Shelley Hoani
With over two decades of experience in tertiary education within a Wānanga context, Dr Shelley Hoani has gained considerable experience in various aspects of Ako (teaching, learning), Aro (reflective practice), and Rangahau (Māori/Indigenous inquiry). Notably, Shelley has served as the lead for Publications and Ethics, acquiring extensive knowledge and experience in both of these areas. Shelley's interests encompass a wide range of personal, professional, and scholarly kaupapa, including wāhine Māori leadership, Indigenous frameworks of being, notions of success, the social construction of…
Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. In 1991, with funding from William T Grant career, she completed career development training in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. After fifteen years of postdoctoral fieldwork, and faculty appointments at Emory University and the University of New Mexico, Hurtado moved to ASU to help build the first anthropology-based Global Health program. In 2012, Hurtado was inducted as fellow of…
Professor Onowa McIvor Whitinui
Onowa McIvor Whitinui is a member of Kinoséwi Sípíhk (Norway House Cree Nation) and connected to Cross Lake in Treaty 5 territory (northern Manitoba) on her mother and Scottish-Canadian through her father. She is a grateful resident of the SENĆOŦEN and lək̓ʷəŋən speaking territories. She is a lifelong language learner, activist, researcher and professor in Indigenous Language Revitalization.
Bradley Moggridge
Prof Bradley Moggridge is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living on Ngunnawal Country. He is currently Professor (Science) and Associate Dean (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) at the University of Technology Sydney, previously was an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science at the University of Canberra and in 2023 was conferred with a PhD (Science). Between 2017-22 he was the Indigenous Liaison Officer for the Threatened Species Hub under NESP.He was appointed by IPCC as Lead Author for Assessment Report 7 WG1 Chapter 10 and is a Board Member with the NSW EPA and…
Professor Awi Mona
Awi Mona is a member of the Seediq Indigenous Nation of Taiwan and serves as Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan’s leading university for Indigenous studies. One of the first Indigenous scholars in Taiwan to earn a Ph.D. in Law, his research focuses on Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous self-determination, legal pluralism, and the revitalization of Indigenous governance. Through comparative and community-engaged research across Taiwan, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Japan, and the Pacific, he works collaboratively…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.She is the Director of the Fireweed Project, a community-led project aimed at advancing knowledge around, and removing barriers to accessing abortion services and care for Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Fireweed Project is currently hiring.Dr. Monchalin’s research explores access to culturally safe health services, primarily with urban Métis Peoples. Her research program advances Métis reproductive…