Kaihautū | Director & Co-founder

Iwi: Ngāti Marutuahu, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata, Rangitāne & Kāi Tahu 

Our co-founder, known to many as MP, brings with her an extensive career of engagement practice, and a lifetime of experience within te ao Māori, a speaker of her native tongue and passionate about the uplifting of kaupapa Māori. 

Mona-Pauline brings with her experience woven together from a vast range of project and initiative types: engagement campaign development, event management, strategic planning, education projects, strategic and aspirational planning, iwi, hapū, whānau and marae projects.

Co-founder

Tātai Whakapapa: Punjab

Our co-founder our operations extraordinaire navigates our internal business pathways.  TJ is steeped in his Punjabi culture, language and holdfasts to our connections between Aotearoa and India. Tajinder, known to many as TJ, brings light and life to our E Rea whānau, innovative and driven. 

Kaitaunaki Kaupapa | Projects & Operations Coordinator.  

Iwi: Ngāpuhi

Destinee located in Te Tai Tokerau, with a great understanding of the environment, and lived experience in and amongst her hapori & whānau. 

Our Kaitohutohu Kaupapa, brings her exceptional manaakitanga, and communication skills critical in the spaces we share. Destinee supports our operations and projects through designing and implementing business processes and engagement with whānau, hapū, iwi, hapori, clients and knowledge holders. 

Kaitaunaki Kaupapa | Projects Coordinator.  

Iwi: Ngāti Raukawa

Kimiora birthed in the heart of Raukawa ki Tai, graduate of Kohanga Reo, and raukura of Te Aho Matua currently studying at Victoria University of Wellington. Kimiora lives and breathes te ao Māori, navigating and moving within these spaces naturally & seamlessly. 

Kairangahau | Researcher.  

Iwi: Te Rarawa, Ngāti Marutuahu & Ngāti Huarere ki Whangapoua

Raylyn, mokopuna of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia and Hamiora Mangakāhia, is passionate about the bringing together of kōrero tuku iho, versed in sharing space with our kaumātua and listening, retaining kōrero whakapapa and doing so in ways which are not extractive, and are empowering.

Iwi: Ngāti Marutuahu, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata, Rangitāne & Kāi Tahu 

Challen is the founder and director of The Sisters Consultancy Limited, and integrated communications agency. With over 15 years of diverse and dynamic experience in communications and marketing, I am a passionate and purpose-driven leader who strives to make a positive difference for the businesses and communities she serves. Additionally, Challen is pursuing an Executive MBA at Massey University, where she is expanding her knowledge and skills in global business management and governance. 

Tātai Whakapapa: Scotland and Sama'i, Falelatai, Sāmoa

Sonya is an Aotearoa-born Pacific creative with gafa to Scotland and Sama'i, Falelatai, Sāmoa. Sonya is a Senior Design Lecturer at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University. 

Sonya has worked on projects that facilitate and influence the presence of Pacific Peoples through creative contexts and practices. Her research is focused on Pacific communities in Aotearoa, and their relationship to design context.   

Iwi: Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki

Georgina Stokes is a design researcher and educator working across spatial and service design disciplines. Her research seeks to uplift kaupapa Māori design approaches to facilitate dialogues of care between people and place; working with mana-enhancing and whānau-centred practices, spatial mapping analysis (whakapapa plotting) and place-based visualisation techniques.

Georgina is formerly a lecturer at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University and teaches between the Spatial Design programme and Critical and Contextual Studies.