ETHNIC COMMUNITIES ENGAGEMENT SUMMIT

I Know What The Media Tells You But: Do You Know Who I Am?

30th AUT April 2016 WG308 Sir Paul Reeves Building, 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland CBD

9am – 4pm

Let’s develop and grow relationships among ethnic communities! Join the conversation

The purpose of the summit is: To create a platform for better understanding and engagement, and celebrate the role of the many cultural groupings within society. To build a sense of unity among other ethnic peoples, and to explore how they can contribute and add value to the community and to the nation. The day will have three main sessions: 1. Cultural and Ethnic communities and their engagement with Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi 2. Cultural and Ethnic communities’ perceptions and understandings of themselves and of each other 3. Cultural and Ethnic communities and their representations by the mainstream and ethnic media. There will be performances from members of the community, and an opportunity to network.

Facilitator: Associate Professor Camille Nakhid Panelists include: Kelvin Davis MP, Mayor Meng Foon, Speakers: Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse Wallace Chapman, Dame Susan Devoy Simon Collins, Alexis LewGor Lincoln Tan PROGRAMME

Theme: I Know What The Media Tells You But: Do You Know Who I Am? Purpose: To develop and grow relationships among ethnic communities

8.30 am Registration 9.00 am Karakia 9.10 am House keeping

9.12 am Welcome remark – Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse 9.25 am Keynote speech – Dame Susan Devoy 9.40 am Acknowledgment – Alexis LewGor 9.50 am Ethnic communities and their relationship with Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi. Kelvin Davis MP, Dr. Keri-Anne Wikitera, Pat Snedden, Mengzhu Fu Chair: Helen Te Hira

11.20 am Morning Tea 11.40 am Performance

11.55 am Ethnic communities’ perceptions of each other and of themselves. Jenny Janif, Tuwe Kudakwashe, Mayor Meng Foon, Mabel Msopero Chair: Joris de Bres

1.25 pm Lunch 1.45 pm Performance

2.00 pm Ethnic communities and their representation by mainstream and ethnic media. Simon Collins, Mustapha Farouk, Lincolin Tan, Jenny Rankine, Yee Yang ‘Square’ Lee Chair: Wallace Chapman 3.00 pm “Where to from here?” Chair: Peter Glensor 4.00 pm Closing Karakia Camille Nakhid Camille is from Trinidad and Tobago. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology. She is the chair of the Migrant Action Trust and was the inaugural chair of the Auckland Council Ethnic Peoples Advisory panel. Penny Hulse, Deputy Mayor of Auckland Penny Hulse has more than 22 years of local government experience. She is the Deputy Mayor of Auckland and Chair of the Auckland Development, and Council Controlled Organisations (CCO) Governance and Monitoring Committees. Penny’s special areas of interest are sustainable city development, climate change, environmental advocacy, and community development and youth. Penny was born in South Africa and came to New Zealand with her South African mother and Kiwi father when she was 16.

Dame Susan Devoy DNZM, CBE Dame Susan Devoy DNZM, CBE is the current Race Relations Commissioner. She is currently the Director of Women Walking Ltd and is a board member of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand and a member and former Chair of the Halberg Trust. From 2000 to 2003 she was the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Sport Bay of Plenty. Dame Susan served as a board member of the Auckland (2000 – 2003) and as Chairperson of the BNZ partners, Tauranga (2011 – 2013). She is currently a trustee of TECT (Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust). Ms. Alexis LewGor Alexis was born in Fiji and is of Fijian, Chinese, German and Samoan ancestry. She is in her second term as National President of Multicultural New Zealand (NZ Federation of Multicultural Councils). She was instrumental in the establishment of the Pacific Islands Development Charitable Trust and the Rotorua Ethnic Council, (now Multicultural Rotorua) and is in her 10th year as President. She is a recipient of the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award, Rotorua District Community Award and was recently named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Kelvin Davis MP Kelvin is Labour MP for Te Tai Tokerau since September 2014 and spokesperson for Corrections and Māori Development. He was also a list MP in 2008 to 2011, and 2014. He is currently a member of the Māori Affairs Committee, and is of Ngapuhi descent. Kelvin has targeted a number of issues which he believes need to be addressed: Māori economic and cultural success; fairness and justice; Correction’s treatment of prisoners, and an end to sexual and domestic violence. Kelvin, is a former teacher and principal and a Woolf Fisher Fellow (2004) plus held a Rotary Group Study Exchange to Arizona (2005). Dr Keri Wikitera Keri is a lecturer / researcher working in the School of Hospitality and Tourism at AUT University. She has just completed her doctorate (2015) which focused on how Māori identities can be found and nurtured outside of what are considered traditional Māori places. Prior to her work in the tertiary sector, Keri was a ministerial advisor in women’s health policy development and manager of the Auckland Cervical Screening Programme. Her Māori tribal affiliation is Tūhourangi of Te Arawa. Patrick Snedden Pat is a 61 year old Pakeha who began his professional life in publishing after graduating in 1979 from Auckland University in accounting, economics and anthropology. From 1982 – 2008 he also worked as an economic adviser to the Ngati Whatua o Orakei Māori Trust Board and was part of their Treaty negotiation team. In 2008 – 13 he was appointed Chief Crown Negotiator in the Muriwhenua treaty claims for the Far North region. Ko Helen Te Hira ahau No Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri me Ngāti Whatua ōku iwi. I have a background as an educator and facilitator internationally of campaigns, research and social change. I have worked in Asia, the Pacific and Middle East in support of human rights and have a personal interest in indigenous medicine and healing. Jenny Janif Originally from Fiji, Jennifer Janif migrated to New Zealand in 1989. She graduated with Bachelor of Arts majoring in Sociology from University of Auckland and has a post graduate Diploma in Arts from Auckland University of Technology. She is employed as a Community Investment Advisor with Community Investment, The Ministry of Social Development. She has worked in various public sector roles over the past twenty six years with a particular focus on supporting community development, identity, ethnic affairs and early intervention / prevention programmes on positive parenting and family violence. She was appointed a Justice of Peace in 1997. Kudakwashe Tuwe Tuwe is originally from Zimbabwe and currently works for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation as the National Programme Manager – African Communities. He is currently studying for a PhD with AUT. Mayor Meng Foon Meng Foon started life as a market gardener in Gisborne; his parents came from Hong Kong and canton china. He won a seat on the Gisborne council in 1994. He has been mayor since 2001 and participates in national and international forums. Speaking several languages helps him communicate effectively with his communities and his love for his people has been a great support to his role and to his family. Mabel Msopero Mabel is from Zimbabwe and on arrival in New Zealand in 2002 first settled in Wairoa before moving to Taumarunui then Palmerston North before settling in Auckland. She is a current member of the Auckland Council Ethnic People Advisory Panel, Manager at English Language Partners North Shore and sits on the Board of Asylum Seekers Support Trust. Mabel has an extensive background in education. She holds a BA in English and Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe, Executive MBA and a Master of Management both from Massey University. Joris de Bres Joris was New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner from 2002 to 2013. He is currently an Honorary Advisor to Multicultural New Zealand and Chair of the Project Crimson Trust. Last year be conducted a New Zealand wide series of over 30 workshops for Multicultural New Zealand which were summarized in the report Our Multicultural Future: New Zealanders Talk About Multiculturalism. Simon Collins Simon Collins is the NZ Herald’s social issues reporter. He joined the Herald in 1983 and worked in the press gallery at Parliament from 1985 – 1993. From 1993 to 2000 he edited an independent Wellington weekly, City Voice, which included “papers within a paper” edited by people from the Māori, Pacific, Chinese, Indian, Greek, young, senior-citizen and gay / lesbian / bisexual communities. He returned to the Herald as a feature writer in 2000 and has since covered science (2002 – 2005) and social issues (since 2005). He has worked with families from Burma, in recent years with his wife Ehlar who came here as a refugee from Burma in 2000. Mustafa Farouk Mustafa is currently the Chairman of the Federations of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) National Dawah and Outreach Committee and has previously served the organization as its Vice President. He is also a Council Member of the Waikato Muslim Association and an active member of the Waikato Interfaith Council (WIFCO). He represented New Zealand locally and internationally in regional interfaith activities and is an active promoter of New Zealand food products in Halal markets overseas. He was awarded the Queens honour (QSM) for service to the Muslim community in 2015 He graduated with a Masters and PhD in Food Science from Michigan State University and currently works as a senior Scientist at AgResearch Ltd. Jenny Rankine Jenny was born in Australia, moved to Aotearoa / New Zealand in 1979 and identifies as Pākehā. She has worked as a newspaper journalist, magazine editor and in health and non-profit public relations. In 2004, she co-founded Kupu Taea: Media and te Tiriti Project, a Māori / Pākehā media studies research group. It is based in Te Rōpū Whāriki, a Massey University Māori research centre in Auckland. Over a decade, Kupu Taea studied how mass and Māori news media – newspapers, television and radio news programmes – represented Māori and te Tiriti o Waitangi. Their results are available at http://www.trc.org.nz/research- about-media-and-te-tiriti and their list of alternatives to anti-Māori themes that are commonly used by the media at http://www.trc.org.nz/alternatives-anti-maori-themes-news-media. Lincoln Tan Lincoln is ’s diversity, ethnic affairs and immigration senior reporter. He first started writing for the Herald as a columnist in 2005 but switched to reporting full time for the Herald in 2007. He previously worked as an editor for iBall, an ethnic community newspaper and was a former board member of the New Zealand Journalists Training Organisation. He was also a former president of the Singapore Club Christchurch and chair of the Christchurch Asian Youth Trust and organised an anti-racism march in Christchurch in 2004. Lincoln began his journalism career in 1990 in Singapore but moved to New Zealand in 1997. Yee Yang ‘Square’ Lee Square is an arts manager, creative technologist and chartered secretary with experience in Malaysia, Wales and New Zealand. Square’s other roles include Co-Manager & General Counsel for the The Modern Māori Quartet Ltd, Founding Trustee for The Oryza Foundation for Asian Performing Arts, Trustee for the Asia New Zealand Film Foundation Trust, Director of Short+Sweet New Zealand Ltd and Member of the Auckland Council Ethnic Peoples Advisory Panel. Square holds LL.B. (Hons) and MA in Arts Management (Hons) degrees from Cardiff University and Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design respectively, and is a member of the NZ Institute of Directors as well as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) / Governance New Zealand. Wallace Chapman Wallace is a radio and TV broadcaster and public speaker. His show Sunday Morning on RNZ is the largest weekend radio show in the country – an interview based current affairs and issues show. He is also the host of the long running ‘pub politics’ TV show, Back Benches, on PRIME. Peter Glensor Peter is the founding General Manager – Kaiwhakahaere Matua – of Hui E! Community Aotearoa – set up to connect, strengthen and promote the whole community sector. His long NGO experience includes leadership in the following sectors: Chairing both ANGOA and the Community Sector Taskforce, Health sector, Community development and volunteering, Treaty of Waitangi and race relations issues, International aid and development, Philanthropy, Youth work, Church and ecumenical movement and Research. As an elected member of the Wellington Regional Council he served six of his nine years as Deputy Chair, and was responsible for oversight of Public Transport, Flood Management, and Economic Development. He lives in Korokoro, with his wife Dr Joan Skinner. They have a merged family of six children and eight grandchildren. Mengzhu Fu Ko Panshan tōku maunga Ko Haihe tōku awa Ko Hanzu tōku te iwi Ko Tianjin tōku rohe Ko Fu tōku whānau No Haina ahau E noha ana au ki Tamaki-Makaurau Ko Mengzhu tōku ingoa Mengzhu Fu is the Youth Project Coordinator for Shakti Youth. She works with Asian, Middle Eastern and African youth across Auckland to build leadership among migrant and refugee youth work towards a future without gender violence and oppression. She is a 1.5 generation Chinese migrant based in Tamaki-Makaurau. She has a MA in social anthropology, where her research was focused on structural violence in the lives of young migrant survivors of family violence. She is interested in how “ethnic” tau iwi are also complicit in colonisation and how they can support tangata whenua in their struggles for tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake. New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils Inc. Level 3, 138-140 Wakefield Street, Wellington Postal: P. O. Box 1409, Wellington 6140 Phone: (04) 916 9177 Mobile: (021) 029 55148 Email: [email protected] Web: www.multiculturalnz.org.nz