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Ben Ngaia (Te Āti Awa) is Executive Director Development at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, overseeing the design and development of new educational programmes. Before joining the wānanga, he worked in government, education and iwi development. He is also a teacher and historian of Māori language and tikanga in his hapū and iwi.

Dr Wayne Ngata (Ngati Ira, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti) is a Board member of Te Kura a-Iwi o Mangatuna and the Tertiary Education Commission, and Board Chair of Te Taumata Aronui. He is active in the revitalisation of te reo Maori, and is also a specialist in Maori literature and long-time advocate for Maori art. Dame Anne Salmond ONZ DBE FRSNZ is a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and a leading social scientist. She has written a series of prize-winning books about Maori life, European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific, most recently Tears of Rangi (2017) from Auckland University Press. Natalie Robertson (Ngati Porou, Clann Dhonnchaidh) is a photographic and moving image artist and Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. She has exhibited extensively in public institutions throughout New Zealand and internationally, and her photography was published in the award-winning A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngati Porou Carving, 1830-1930 (2016), Auckland University Press. Amiria Salmond is a social anthropologist affiliated to both the University of Auckland and Cambridge University. She is a consultant / researcher on the five-year ERC-funded project Pacific Presences, studying German museum collections of Oceanic material, as well as relations between German anthropologists and those in the UK and the Pacific during the first half of the twentieth century. This work involves collaboration with present-day Maori and Pacific Island groups who have strong interests in collections from their homelands that are now in European museums. Monty Soutar ONZM (Ngati Porou, Ngati Awa, Ngai Tai ki Tamaki, Ngati Kahungunu) is an award winning historian. He has published two major research and publication projects; Nga Tama Toa: Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945 and Whiti! Whiti! Whiti! E! Maori in the First World War. He has also made a significant contribution as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal and in the development of the Te Tai Whakaea: Treaty Settlement Stories Project at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship in 2021. Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. She works at the junction of business studies, anthropology and history, with a strong focus on Aotearoa and the Pacific. Her work often explores innovation and sustainability in creative and cultural industries. James Schuster (Te Arawa) is a Maori Built Heritage Adviser (Traditional Arts) to the NZ Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga. Born and raised in Rotorua into a family that has maintained and practised Maori Arts and Crafts for generations, his traditional knowledge and skills have been passed down through his family. His great-great grandfather was Tene Waitere, the renowned Ngati Tarawhai carver. Conal McCarthy is the programme director in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published widely on the historical and contemporary Maori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display (2007), Museums and Maori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice (2011) and Museum practice: The contemporary museum at work (2015) in the series International Handbook of Museum Studies.

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Juliet Nicholas is based in Christchurch and has featured in many lifestyle magazines and in several books, including our own Flourish (with Barb Rogers) and In the Company of Gardeners (with Sue Allison). Rosemary Barraclough is an award-winning magazine journalist, who spent nearly a decade working for NZ House & Garden. She particularly loves writing about gardeners, who are a generous, likeable, down-to-earth lot, she says. Rosemary's happy place is her bach garden in Northland, where natives, hibiscus and frangipani grow at an incredible rate.

Lilla Nicholas-Holt grew up on a sheep farm in the far north of New Zealand, enjoying all the wonderful experiences and freedom of the great outdoors. Apart from enjoying her love of writing, she delights in painting portraits for family and friends. She is responsible for 3 adult children, 4 grandchildren, 2 books of fiction and 7 children's books. .

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Zeb Tamihana Nicklin (Pāhauwera, Ngā Tokorima a Hinemanuhiri, Tūhoe, Tāmanuhiri, Rangitāne) is an award-winning Māori language writer based in Te Papaeoia, Palmerston North and a licensed translator under the Māori Language Commission. Zeb has been teaching te reo Māori for 17 years and Te Onehaumako is his debut book.

Joanna was born and brought up in Kenya, East Africa. She travelled widely as a young adult and later, when married to a nautical Captain, sailed with him to many distant places, which stretched her imagination and gave her many ideas for her poetry. Becoming a dedicated Christian in the early 1980s, her poetry took on a different focus. Her hope is that people will be encouraged and challenged in their own life journey, while recognising that all good and gracious gifts come from the hand of a loving God who has a specific purpose and plan for each one of us.

Andrew Nicol and Ed McKnight of Opes Partners are property investment advisers with a wealth of experience helping ordinary Kiwis to climb the property ladder and achieve financial freedom. Together they front the Property Academy Podcast, which has been downloaded more than 4 million times, and regularly speak at property investment conferences and seminars. Through Opes Partners, the pair work with property investors to provide investment advice, property management, property accounting and help with structuring a mortgage.