Courtney (Tainui, Ngāti Koroki Kahukura) is a jeweller, artist and a lapidist - someone who cuts and shapes precious stones. Through her business - Courtney Marama, she designs bespoke jewellery, handcrafted in precious metals and set with gemstones fro

Kera Sherwood-O’Regan (Kāi Tahu) is a wahine who lives with Fibromyalgia. She started the organisation Fibromyalgia Aotearoa NZ,  to help others living with the condition. Alongside this mahi, she also runs Activate, a social enterprise creative agen

Kanoa  (Ngāti Porou, Tuhoe) started off as a kid’s tv presenter and is now one of very few (less than a handful on our count) wahine Māori to lead prime time television in Aotearoa. Born in Gisborne, she spent much of her childhood moving around Toko

Marama (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) is a māmā, an activist, a proud wahine Māori and, the co-leader of the New Zealand Green Party. For years we have seen her on our television screens, in our newspapers, and at our community events. Many of her spee

Tia lives in Vancouver. It is the tupuna whenua of her husband and where she is raising her tamariki for the time being. Of Ngā Puhi and Te Aupōuri whakapapa, she is a māmā of six and the director of Whaea Productions. She has spent many years working tow

Rangimarie is the tumuaki of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tututarakihi in the Far North. At only 29 she is transforming the education system by creating a unique kura, embeded in tikanga Māori, with a goal to actively exercise Tino Rangatiratanga. Tututarakihi

Julia is a dancer, mark maker, storyteller. Of Papua New Guinean and Australian heritage, she created the film Tep Tok : Reading Between Our Lines, sharing the journey to raise awareness for the dying art form that she is helping revive through her hand p

This full time artist is a bark cloth maker and currently living in Turanga (Gisborne). Her Aute pieces are adorned with celestial patterns, combining ancestral knowledge of Kapa and star navigation. In this episode we talk about how Hawaii helped Nikau f

Aqui is a Janajāti woman from the Himalayan regions of South Asia. She travelled to Aotearoa from India earlier this year for an exhibition we both participated in at ST PAUL st Gallery. It was in the middle of the Ihumātao reclamation and so we recorded

Recently Pualani Case travelled to Aotearoa to bring us the stories of Hawaii and her fight to protect her maunga, Mauna Kea.  Aunty Pua, as she is affectionately known, is a spiritual and cultural leader. She is a Kumu Hula, a teacher of traditional