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Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Māori Studies Te Kawa a Māui. She has a PhD in psychology that focuses on factors that support heritage language development for Māori learners of te reo Māori. As well as focusing on Māori language learning, she also researches the ways in which Māori and Pākehā learn about colonial history, and how such knowledge contributes to our concepts of biculturalism in Aotearoa. In 2019, for Te Mātāwai, she led the project Manawa ū ki te reo Māori.

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Dr Timoti Te Moke is a house doctor working at Middlemore and Auckland City hospitals.

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Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) is a scholar, poet and irredentist. She researches and teaches Māori, Pacific and Indigenous texts in order to centre Indigenous expansiveness and de-centre colonialism. Alice is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. She studied at the University of Auckland, earned a PhD at Cornell University, is a Fulbright scholar and Marsden recipient and has held academic appointments in New Zealand, Canada, Hawai‘i and Australia. Her first book Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) won Best First Book from the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. Her most recent book is Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB, 2020).

With a string of awards including the country's highest accolades for television, comedy and writing, Te Radar is one of New Zealand's most recognised entertainers. Despite growing up on a farm he's also (unofficially) New Zealand's worst television gardener. He continues to immerse himself in rural New Zealand, MCing events such as Fieldays and Young Farmer of the Year. His live comedy shows celebrate his love for the quirkier side of New Zealand history, and his TV career has seen him filming everywhere from Timor to Timbuctoo. For more see www.radarswebsite.com Ruth Spencer has an MA in Theatre and Film Studies, somewhere. She has a professional performing background in theatre, stand-up comedy and circus cabaret. She sometimes sings in a glam rock band which is not relevant but sounds cool. Now a humour writer and researcher for print, television and live comedy, Ruth's written work has appeared in Metro, North & South, Woman,The New Zealand Herald, and Sunday Star-Times. She's looking forward to publishing her debut novel, which she will definitely start writing soon.

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