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Greg Newbold is Professor Emeritus in sociology at the University of Canterbury. During his 32-year career at the university he published over 100 articles and ten books, mainly in the field of criminology. However after completing his PhD in 1986 Greg was contracted by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind to research the costs of blindness, producing a monograph that formed the centrepiece of the Foundation’s submissions to the Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988. Subsequently he was asked to write the New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind’s history for its 50th Jubilee in 1995. This was published under the title of Quest for Equity in October that year. The current book has been written to commemorate the Association’s 75th anniversary.  Written during Greg Newbold’s final year at Canterbury University, Equity and Governance is his 10th book. Greg retired in July 2020 and now lives in the Western Bay of Plenty. 

Janet Newman was born in Levin. She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition, the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems and was a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards. Her essays about the sonnets of Michelle Leggott and the ecopoetry of Dinah Hawken won the Journal of New Zealand Literature Prize for New Zealand Literary Studies in 2014 and 2016. She has worked as a journalist in New Zealand and Australia, and a bicycle courier in London. She has three adult children and lives with her partner at Koputaroa in Horowhenua, where she farms beef cattle.

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John Newton was Llew Summers’ close friend during the last two years of the sculptor’s life. A poet, critic and cultural historian, his earlier books include ‘The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune’ (VUP, 2009), and ‘Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945’ (VUP, 2017). He is the 2020 Robert Burns Fellow.

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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.

Born and raised in Patea, Airana Ngarewa (Ngati Ruanui, Ngarauru, Ngaruahine) writes about Maori affairs for The Spinoff. His writing has also been published by RNZ,

Sir Apirana Ngata, Ngati Porou, 1874-1950, was the leading Maori figure of his day, a land reformer, politician and scholar. He made a vital contribution to the revival of the Maori people and culture in the early years of the twentieth century and is the subject of a recent biography by Ranginui Walker. Pei te Hurinui Jones, Ngati Maniapoto, 1898-1976, was an outstanding scholar who was completely bilingual. He published extensively in both English and Maori, translating Shakespeare's plays and compiling the Tainui traditions published in Nga Iwi o Tainui.