Linda Waimarie Nikora is a Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand — Te Apaarangi and an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society. She belongs to Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāti Pahauwera. You can read her work at lwnikora.wordpress.com