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With her roots proudly in Muriwhenua, Alana Harris is the Director of Data Transformation at Whānau o Waipareira.  She has a rich whakapapa, with four generations tying her to Whānau Ora.

Alana has spent her career at Waipareira, dedicated to embedding best practice Whānau Ora across te Ika-a-Māui. Working in accountancy, Alana began her journey in the finance division, transitioning to become a Whānau Ora Relationship Manager.  Throughout Covid she helped lead the Whānau Ora battalion, vaccinating whānau across the upper north island.

A self-proclaimed nerd, who enjoys finding and joining the dots, Alana has more recently worked in the data and digital space crafting systems and process improvements that enable the Whānau Ora network to better tell the story of Whānau transformation.  Alana has represented Waipareira and Whānau Ora at multiple conferences, most recently as part of the New Zealand delegation to attend the Commonwealth Leaders Business Forum in Samoa in 2024.

Alana is inspired by the best of Whānau Ora, evidencing how whānau, with the support of our unique systemic, can experience exponential growth and development.  She now challenges the system itself and works to affect data system change at local, regional, and national levels.