Ema Tavola is an artist-curator which she says mostly involved her being an arts manager, advocate and hype woman of Moana Oceania arts and culture.
Identity
Hiria Cameron and Kat Poi are sisters. The pair both work in racial equity education, building people’s skill, capacity and knowledge to engage, sustain and deepen conversation about race.
Courtney (Tainui, Ngāti Koroki Kahukura) is a jeweller, artist and a lapidist – someone who cuts and shapes precious stones.
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.
Dr Amber Aranui has spent the past 10 and a half years searching the world for our tūpuna, and working to bring them home.
Born and raised in Otautahi, Christchurch she moved to Auckland at age 19. There, she became a peep show dancer and stripper, working in the sex industry for 4 years.
Mojo Juju is from Te Whenua Moemoeā, the land of dreamtime, Australia. She is an ARIA nominated artist who has experienced being labelled “other”. Of mixed Filipino and Aboriginal heritage, from the Wiradjuri people of NSW, her latest album Native Tongue is her most personal yet. It talks about being mixed race and, that feeling of straddling a line between where you belong and questioning if you are enough.
