Ko Puketapu te pā tūwatawata

Me he manu ka rere ki te kaurera o Ruahine, ngā pae maunga e tāwharau nei i a au

Ka mātakitaki iho aku kanohi ki Ngaruroro Mokotūāraro-ki-Rangatira, te awa e tārutu ana

Ko Karukaru te Kaitiaki

Ko Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāi Te Upokoiri, Ngāti Mahuika, Ngāti Honomōkai ngā hapū

Ka toro aku ringa ki Ōmahu, te papakāinga e manaaki nei i a au

Ko Kahukuranui te Whare Tipuna

Ko Huikai te tekoteko

Ko Ruatapuwahine te wharekai

Ko Takitimu te waka

Ko Mihiwairua tōku kuia

Ko Heni tōku whaea

Ko Roland rāua ko Jackie ōku mātua whangai

Ko Emma ahau

emā / Dr. Emma Maurice is an indigenous philosopher, artist, and educator working in the liminal spaces between academic and creative practice, between inherited identity and asserted agency, between what was lost and what has been reclaimed.

Based in Ōtautahi, she works across sculpture, philosophical research, and doctoral education, asking: How do we make visible the identities we claim? How do we honor whakapapa while exercising agency?

Her PhD explored Indigenous agency in Ngāi Tahu letters to the editor, replacing deficit colonial narratives with aspirational language located in Māori intention and mana.

As an educator, she offers doctoral support grounded in lived experience - surviving a 9-year PhD journey, mental health crises, and institutional precarity. Her workshops create space for honest conversation about the reality of doctoral work.

She is Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, knowledge keeper, and aunty to many.