Ko Ngā Rangatira

Charlizza Matehe utilises her creative and artistic abilities to facilitate challenging conversations around mental health with young people.

Mataku-Ariki de Roo is passionate about creating kaupapa Māori spaces for people to share their experiences of mental health and suicide prevention and postvention.

Simone embraces this change as an opportunity to align her future career with her core values of equity, rangatiratanga, and service.

Māmā of two girls, working full time and always focused on equity and better outcomes for our people.

Shaquille Graham is passionate about the health, well-being and hauora of Māori. He works to improve Aotearoa and tangata Māori through research into the well-being issues and inequalities that communities in Aotearoa face.

Te Pūoho Kātene is an accomplished and influential Māori leader whose work bridges Indigenous knowledge, social impact, governance, and economic development to create transformative change for Māori communities.

As a researcher and academic, Anna draws on Kaupapa Māori research inquiry paradigms to conduct research to support the health and well-being of wāhine, pēpi, and whānau Māori.

He strongly advocates for whānau to join health interventions and community programs focusing on better whānau outcomes.

Becoming a doctor has always been Boudine's dream, and the chance to give back to her community drives her. Her journey has been made possible through the support of her whānau and generous scholarships.

Rutu King-Hazel is an aspiring mental health advocate and catalyst for positive change. She is passionate about public speaking, empowering others, and demonstrating compassionate leadership to support the well-being of whānau.

Tia Haira is a biomedical scientist specialising in chemical genetics, immunology, and biobanks within mātauranga Māori and western science systems.