Nō ngā iwi o Ngāi Te Rangi, Kōtirana (Scotland), Wera (Wales) and Hāmene (Germany) ōku tīpuna. Ko Ngāi Tūkairangi, Tauranga Moana, ko raua Nan Argeantaich, Eilean Arainn ngā hapū. I whānau au ki Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), ā, I auraki au ki Tauranga Moana te tūrangawaewae tō ōku tīpuna tāria te wā.

My ancestors are of the people of Ngāi Te Rangi, Scotland, Wales and Germany. Ngāi Tūkairangi (Tauranga Moana) and Nan Ageantaich (Isle of Arran) are my clans. I grew up in Auckland and eventually returned to the Tauranga Moana, the homelands of my Ngāi Te Rangi ancestors.

I am an interdisciplinary, Indigenous, feminist scholar-practitioner and I identify as takatāpui (two spirit). I’m most at home in the bush, by the sea and in the mountains and am continually deeply moved by Papatuānuku’s (the Earth Mother) generosity towards us as human kin. Growing up in Aotearoa / New Zealand I initially qualified and practiced as a social worker and community developer.

I am also the Founding Director of the Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience https://www.intergenresil.com/ an Associate Professor of Indigenous and environmental Studies, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Western Ontario. I am happy to have recently published a book “Indigenous Intergenerational resilience: confronting cultural and ecological crisis”. But perhaps some of my deepest joys are in collaborative gatherings such as these Wisdom Councils, and past comings together such as the Elder’s Voices Summit and Radical Human Ecology Dialogues http://kalewiswilliams.com/