KO WAI AU?

Curtis Bristowe started at Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou as the Change & Development Lead during what was lockdown during the 2020 Covid19 pandemic. He is now the General Manager for the Horouta Whānau Ora Whānau Ora Collective and has been instrumental in planning and implementing the collective backbone to what it is today.

Curtis is a man of many strands. He has a PhD in media communications from the University of Waikato, and a former teacher of Indigenous Research at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. An advocate for the survival and prosperity of Māori language and culture, Curtis’ research focused on the development and implementation of a kaupapa Māori-inspired strategic communication framework. It is his hope that this framework can help business and community groups’ focus, and guide their collective purpose and vision.

As Curtis says “There are many threads of history that make up the fabric of our great nation, and stories such as Te Kooti’s deserved to be acknowledged and remembered, lest the faults of the past are again repeated in the present.”