8. Hana Whiting

Hana Whiting (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) is a recent Landscape Architect graduate from Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln Univeristy). She is passionate about providing better outcomes for Māori through design of the natural and built environment. This is particularly evident through her mahi with Ara Poutama (Department of Corrections) and Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd. For this episode, she speaks on: Her journey of studying Landscape Architecture and stepping into her Māoritanga (both in the space of her university stage of life), How she is going to the direction where she feels as though she is being called to, and in her case that is the incorporation of Te Ao Māori into landscape architecture design, Her mahi with Mahaanui Kurataiao Ltd, Her idea of success, and; so so much more.