Conscious Catalysts Ep 5: Atarau and Wikitoria

Atarau and Wikitoria share the different threads of who they are, how they are woven together like Wiki’s mum’s raranga. Both agree that the more people we bring on the journey of exploring our intersectionality and owning our whole stories, the more we can create systems change. They share their lived experiences of navigating Pākehā spaces as Māori, the impact of allyship, drawing resilience from whakapapa and whenua, and differing approaches to systems change - from grassroots to governance. Conscious Catalysts is a series of kōrero to share stories of people who are living and learning intentionally so that they might provoke and catalyse systems change. The series shares the lived experiences of LinC’s Te Whāriki team members, intersectional leaders exploring and activating the intersections of their identity to provoke systems change. It has been developed as a collaboration between Leadership Lab’s Rourou project, Te Whāriki project and PlainsFM.