Hauraki-Waikato | 100 Maori Leaders

Riki is most passionate about seeing more Māori enter careers in the health workforce. He strongly believes this will add to the necessary intelligence and capability the system requires to perform more effectively for whānau.

Helaman Luki is a dynamic emerging leader in Māori and Pacific health.

Taima Campbell is a distinguished Māori nurse leader whose remarkable career spans over four decades, driven by an unwavering commitment to improving Māori health outcomes, championing nursing lead

Mau Te Rangimarie Clark is an emerging Māori health researcher dedicated to challenging systemic inequities in mental health and improving healthcare for Māori.

Shelley Campbell is dedicated to reducing health inequities and creating an effective health system through the development of community and primary healthcare services.

Teresa Wall has dedicated her career to ensuring equitable health outcomes for Māori, driving policy reforms, and strengthening the Māori health sector.

Chrissie has led transformative changes in the disability sector as Chief Executive of Kāpō Māori Aotearoa New Zealand Inc, a National, Indigeno

Whakapapa

Te Arawa te Waka

Ngati Whaakaue te Iwi

Ngati Karenga te hapu

Te Koutu te marae

Ngongotaha te maunga

Dr Cadence Kaumoana holds a Masters and

Nicola Ehau has spent over 40 years providing support and expertise in mental health, Māori health, and workforce planning.

She supports those who suffer from mental health issues and drug use, helping them to reconnect with themselves, their whānau, culture, and society.

Alongside her mahi in health, she has been a leader in Kaupapa Māori Psychology studies.

Ariana is known and respected for her dedication to whānau through her advocacy for social justice and social change in stopping violence against women and children.

Grace Tairua is a wife and mother of four girls who is currently in her second year at Wintec studying for a Bachelor of Nursing.

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

He is passionate about using traditional Māori forms of exercise and healing in his mentoring and training roles.

Dr.Rachel Brown is noted for her leadership, integrity, and passion for all things Māori and manaaki tangata. She has significant experience in health, social services, research, education, iwi and community experience.

Dr Te Aro Moxon is a paediatrician who works to improve cultural safety, cultural competency, and understanding of Te Reo Māori in the health sector.

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

Mataroria credits Te Reo and tikanga Māori as his tūāpapa - the foundation of his identity and successes.

Riana strongly believes that we must change now so that our tamariki and mokopuna have a better future.

As a midwife, Kaniwa Kupenga-Tamarama is passionate about supporting women in their most vulnerable, intimate, and sacred moments.

Roma Balzer CNZM has dedicated over 40 years to working in family violence interventions, primarily in strategy roles

Dr Rawiri McKree Jansen's mahi in hauora Māori, at both grassroots and national levels, speaks volumes about his passion for improving equity within New Zealand's health system.

Dr. Rees Tapsell has been involved in developing several Māori specific approaches to the provision of mental health care for Māori in both government and NGO settings for more than 30 years.

Lucinda Cassin is committed to uplifting the lived experiences and whānau voices within mental health and addiction services.

Sarah Kinred is a trained teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching and creating programs for students. Sarah also has over ten years of experience working as a Mātauranga Māori specialist within mental health and addictions, and she is committed to ensuring that tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake is paramount for Māori, especially when engaging in the health system.

Passionate about mental health and addiction nursing and the role of Nurse Practitioners, Louise believes in making a difference in the lives of tangata whaiora and whanau who face substance-related harm and co-occurring mental and physical health challenges.

Ruahine Albert is passionate about social justice and works in local, national, and international government and community services to improve the well-being of survivors of violence.

Paora firmly believes in using traditional sites of significance as authentic connections for positive individual and collective transformation and Whakapapa as pathways to optimum health and well-being.

Jade works to drive transformation and innovation within the current health system so that the hauora aspirations of communities are realised.

Kingi Kiriona is an orator, a kapa haka exponent, composer, educator, and broadcaster. His observation of Te Reo Māori and Te Ao Māori as a tool for improving the health and well-being of iwi and Māori communities has driven Kingi to realise opportunities for Māori language and culture to be shared, embedded, and recognised through the health system.

Almost twenty years later, Alexander has used his passion and knowledge of addressing historical sexual violence trauma, mental illness, addictions, and well-being to support Māori and Pacific communities across Aotearoa, where he has worked with over 3,500 men with childhood experiences of sexual violence.

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.

Patrick Salmon is an advocate and public voice for ways to share and uphold the well-being of Māori in modern-day society. He uses his creative skills and innovative thinking to develop solutions that support the oranga aspirations of a person's life journey.

Jim is the current Kaihautū – Chief Executive Officer at Awarua Whānau Services, and he is the first Tane to lead the organisation (he has a 30-year history of Wahine Rangatira at the helm). It is a special honour to be given the opportunity to navigate the pathway forward alongside his Awarua Whanau Services team.

Harley Rogers is a senior health professional who has worked in community, primary, and secondary health.

In her work, Genevieve is committed to bridging the inequity gap between Māori and non-Māori, particularly in secondary mental health services; she would also like to see Māori whanau overrepresented in education and underrepresented in all other negative statistics.

Since 2003, when Boyd Broughton began his career in health with Hāpai te Hauora, he has supported te ao Māori within health services through various roles in NGOs, government agencies, tertiary institutions, local councils, Marae Committees, and other community groups.

Her work is focused on ensuring future health services are firmly underpinned by a kaupapa Māori approach, informed by mātauranga Māori and lived experience.

For many years now Andre has led kaupapa Māori based workforce development by contributing to the advancement of innovative and dynamic kaupapa Māori based therapeutic resources.

Her passion for kaupapa Māori research, the growth and development of Māori students within psychology and her commitment to growing Māori indigenous psychology keep her there.

Dr Candy Louise Ramarihi Hera Cookson-Cox has been my mentor, colleague and friend for over twenty years, the first Māori nurse to gain a doctorate in education, a rarity in the early 2000’s

Tania Hodges is a passionate advocate for hauora, mana Māori motuhake, and the development of Māori leadership.

Tureiti Moxon is the definition of a transformational servant leader.

Eugene says his leadership approach has always been to lead from behind and the side. However, he also takes on the words of Selwyn Katene (Māori Public Health Leadership Wānanga, 2002), 'Someone has got to step up the front, rather than looking around for a leader, stop looking...you're it!'

She attributes her success to ‘hard work, determination, and being able to draw from her Māori heritage, synthesising meaning from an indigenous perspective’.

Jordan is working with the future. He has a PhD, and like many people, he can do the theory, but what sets him apart is his ability to work at the marae with whānau and hapū.

Kahu’s approach to leadership is the result of multiple strands of knowledge woven together; cultural, clinical, and academic.

As a leader Mere surrounds herself with people from all walks of life. Mere utilises their skills to accelerate Māori aspirations to lessen the health disparities among Māori.

Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tonga

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu, Ngāti Hāmoa, Ngāti Niue hoki

Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Kiriwera

Waikato/Tainui, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa

Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi

Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Rangitāne, Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Kārenga

Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Te Ata, Ngāti Pāoa

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Maniapoto

Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngai te Rangi

Ngati Awa, Te Whānau -ā- Apanui, Ngāti Rangihouhiri

Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui

Taranaki, Ngāpuhi

Tauranga Moana, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga ki Wharekauri, Kāi Tahu, Tuahiwi and Kāti Māmoe

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu

Waikato, Ngati Kauwhata, Ngati Rangitane, Kai Tahu

Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua, Waikato

Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Kahungunu

Ngāti Porou,Ngāti Maui, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Apakura

Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Raukawa, Te Arawa

Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Hinerangi

Ngāti Whakaue, Raukawa

Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāti Whātua, Waikato, Ngāti Koata, Te Atiawa, Manx

Ngā Puhi

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Tainui

Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Ngāti Maru, Te Arawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Apa

Ngāti Kahu ki Whaingaroa, Ngāpuhi

Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngaati Maahuta

Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tukorehe, Rongowhakaata, Tūwharetoa

Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kuri, Waikato, Ngāti Haua

Ngāti Raukawa ki Waikato, Ngāti Kea Ngāti Tuara ki Te Arawa

Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Tamatera and Ngāti Maru

Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi, Tainui, Ngāti Porou - Born in Auckland, raised in Hokianga

Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga, Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāti Apa (Ngāti Kauae), Muaūpoko (Ngāti Pāriri)

Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Māhanga

Te Arawa, Ngāti Rangiteaorere, Uenukukōpako, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngāi Tahu

Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu

Ngāti Haua, Waikato-Tainui

Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāi Tākoto, Ngāpuhi nui tonu

Ngāti Pikiao, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Haupoto, Ngaati Maahanga

Waikato Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Mutunga, Te Ātiawa

Tūhourangi, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Maniapoto