Conference Planning Committee
Conference Manager: Dr Joanna Kidman (Te Arawa, Te Aupouri)
- Conference Manager
Dr Joanna Kidman is a Co-Director of He Pārekereke which is part of Te Pūtahitanga o te Mātauranga (the School of Education), at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a senior lecturer in youth studies and education. Joanna received her PhD in Sociology from the Australian National University (2001), and is currently conducting research in the area of Māori youth.
Wally Penetito (Tainui - Ngāti Haua, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tamatera)
Wally Penetito is a Co-Director of He Pārekereke at Victoria University of Wellington. Wally is a distinguished scholar of Māori Education with a long-standing reputation in the field. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Māori Education in Te Pūtahitanga o te Mātauranga (the School of Education). Wally also provides policy and development advice to government departments on matters relating to Māori Education.
Stephen Ihaka (Te Aupouri, Ngāti Porou)
Stephen Ihaka is the Pou Hautu (Executive Officer Māori) at Victoria University of Wellington. He has significant practical experience in the development, training and application of strategies involving the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, both from an educational and organisational perspective. Stephen has also worked with the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, facilitating Treaty issues through the Waitangi Tribunal hearing process.
Associate Professor Richard Hill
Dr Richard Hill is the Director of the Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University. He holds the degree of Doctor of Letters from Canterbury University, and is a distinguished historian who, over some 30 years, has specialised in social control in New Zealand (in 1987 he won the F P Wilson award for the most distinguished recent contribution to New Zealand history). During this time he has worked on Maori and Treaty issues, both academically and in the Treaty of Waitangi claims resolution processes. He has held a Commonwealth Scholarship at Cambridge University, where he remains a member of two colleges. His latest book, 'State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1900-1950' will be published in 2004 by Victoria University Press.
Ngaire Wilson (Rongomaiwahine, Te Aupouri)
Ngaire Wilson teaches at Te Kawa a Maui (School of Māori Studies) at Victoria University of Wellington, where she contributes to the undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma programmes. Ngaire is a trained teacher and is researching aspects of Māori knowledge in Rongomaiwahine. She is involved with the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) having recently attended a hui in Australia.
Gloria Clarke (Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahungunu)
- Conference Organiser
Gloria Clarke (BLS, BSpLs Hons) is the Indigenous Knowledges Conference Organiser. She is currently working towards a MA in (Māori) Education with Te Pūtahitanga o te Mātauranga (the School of Education), at Victoria University of Wellington. She is an experienced event manager and teaches sport management papers at the New Zealand Institute of Sport (Wellington).
Michelle Erai (Ngāpuhi)
Michelle Erai is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working on her dissertation 'Colonial Narratives of Violence Against Māori Women in Aotearoa/ New Zealand 1820-1870', and is a Research Fellow with He Pārekereke. Michelle was a founding member of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, and co-organised their first conference, called 'The Color of Violence' in Santa Cruz (2000). Since then Michelle has helped with the Color of Violence II conference in Chicago (2002); organised several Activist Institutes in Portland, Seattle and New Orleans, and served as a member of the Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women.
Pine Southon (Tuhoe)
- Conference Administrator
Pine Southon is the kaiwhakahaere for He Parekereke and is also part of the administration team at School of Education Studies. Pine has worked for Victoria University for over seven years.
Currently Pine is working with Dr Kabini Sanga on re-establishing the He Parekereke Publications. He Parekereke’s first book (Apem Moa) is now available for purchase, the second book (Re-thinking Aid Relationships in Pacific Education) will be hot off the press within the next two weeks, and we are in the final “tidy up” stages for our third book (International Aid Impacts on Pacific Education) which we hope will be available for purchase at the conference in June this year.
Moka Apiti (Waikato-Tainui, Ngati Porou)
B.Soc. Sci (Hons) in Geography (University of Waikato)
- Conference Master of Ceremonies
Moka has worked in the GIS/Mapping field for more than nine years, delivering quality mapping solutions to a wide range of clients. Founding member of the Maittc Information Telecommunications and Technology Council and was a speaker at the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping, held in British Columbia in March 2004.
As the Geographic Analyst at the Crown Forestry Rental Trust (CFRT) from 2000, and GIS Mapping Coordinator as at 2003, had assisted a number of Maori communities to prepare and present quality mapping products as part of their evidential base to the Waitangi Tribunal and Office of Treaty Settlements.
