Poia Rewi lectures at Te Tumu (School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies), the University of Otago. His main areas of research and teaching, and community engagement involve the Māori language, Māori culture, education and performing arts. He was Co-Principal Investigator on the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 'Te Pae Tawhiti' initiative on Te Reo Māori. Professor Rewi was also involved in 'Te Kura Roa – Waiaro: State responsiveness towards the Māori language' project which focused on Māori language revitalisation, examined the responsiveness of the Government to the Māori language at both national and local policy levels.

Farah Rangikoepa Palmer is the Director of the Māori Business & Leadership Centre and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, College of Business, Massey University. Her teaching and research interests are in the sociology of sport, sport management, leadership and governance as they relate to Māori and women in particular. Dr Palmer was a member of the New Zealand women’s rugby team (Black Ferns) from 1995 to 2006, and captained the team to three World Cups (1998, 2002, and 2006). Since retiring from rugby in 2006 she has worked in television as a panellist on a Māori TV sport programme ‘CODE’, worked as a regional mentor for Te Puni Kōkiri, was a Professional Development Manager mentoring professional rugby players in the Manawatū (2010-2012), was a member of Women’s Advisory Committee for the International Rugby Board (IRB), and completed independent reports for various sport, health and community organisations (such as the NZRU and Sport Manawatū). She continues to contribute to rugby and sport as an independent member of the New Zealand Māori Rugby Board and as a member of the Ministerial Forum on Alcohol Advertising and Sponsorship in 2014. At a community level, she is a member of the Aho ki Rangi Trust which supports alternative sport/education programmes such as Manukura based in the Manawatū. 

Melinda Webber is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. Melinda is the Director for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity programme and a former Director of the Starpath Project.  Melinda has been a Fulbright/Nga Pae o te Maramatanga Indigenous Scholar and has published widely on the nature of ethnic identity development and iwi distinctiveness, examining the ways race, ethnicity, culture and identity impact the lives of young people, particularly Maori students . In 2016, Melinda was awarded a Royal Society Te Āparangi Marsden Fast-Start grant to examine the enduring identity traits of Ngāpuhi, and in 2017 Melinda was awarded a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship titled “Kia tu rangatira ai nga iwi Maori: Living, succeeding, and thriving as iwi Maori”

Dr McIntosh is an Associate Professor and Researcher in Sociology at The University of Auckland. Completing her doctorate in sociology in 2002, she has lectured at the University since 1999, and in 2004-2005 was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown, Washington D.C. Tracey is also the Acting Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM). She brings a wide level of experience to her role at NPM in international work, community development, student equity and her contributions to the academic community. She has been a member of the Fulbright Senior Scholar and New Zealand Graduate Scholarship Panel, a member of the Marsden Fund Social Science Panel and the FoRST Te Tipu o te Wānanga Māori Research Investment Panel. Tracey also was the Associate Dean (Equity) in the Faculty of Arts in 2003-2007 and was Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (EO) from 2005- 2008. Of Tuhoe descent, Tracey has been involved in Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga as a foundation member of the Research Committee and has had a long involvement with the Māori Women’s Welfare League. In 2002 she was awarded a University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award. She has also taught in France and Burundi, and lectured in sociology at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

Peter Adds is an Associate Professor at Te Kawa a Maui - the School of Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He is from the Otaraua Hapu of Te Ātiawa in Taranaki. His academic training is in archaeology but he has extensive experience in Treaty Settlements and is also an accomplished Treaty trainer. He was the claimant researcher for the Taranaki Land Claim and subsequently the claim negotiator for Te Ātiawa. He is also the inaugural and current Chairperson of the Māori Association of Social Science.