Kapiti: Kai & Kōrero with Hūhana Lyndon

Kai & kōrero: tāngata, taiao, tōrangapū - people, planet, politics with Hūhana Lyndon

Hūhana Lyndon, nō Ngātiwai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Whātua, Waikato Tainui and Pare Hauraki, is a Green
list MP based in Tai Tokerau. She will be joined by Melody Willis as the hosts of this community
meeting to introduce themselves and Green Party policy. You’ll get to interact with the candidates up
close with plenty of time for questions.

Hūhana is an advocate for the advancement of He Whakaputanga me Te Tiriti o Waitangi with the
Crown, Local Government and community on behalf of hapū and iwi. She is the former CEO of
Ngātiwai Trust Board and Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust. Hūhana secured research funding for the
development of the first Indigenous Forestry Transition Plan for the 5600ha of the Trust’s corpus
underpinned by mātauranga o Ngāti Hine. She implemented cadetships into the Trust’s Kiwifruit
Orchards and led the iwi strategy for the protection of taonga on land and sea underpinned by WAI
262. Hūhana takes a collaborative leadership approach which was demonstrated in the Ngātiwai and
Ngāti Hine COVID-19 response – tiaki tangata, whenua, me te moana.