WEBINAR: Institutional Racism in Health and Education

🌱 Kaikōrero / Speakers: Liana McDonald + Heather Came
🌱 Ringa hāpai / Chair: David Small

🔥 Webinar format: fireside chat

Racism has become normalised within the administration of the New Zealand public sector since before the landmark Puao te Ata tu report which documented racism in the social welfare sector.

Racism manifests in policy, contracting processes, in the running of hospitals, in schools, classrooms, curriculum and waiting rooms.

This fireside chat with a pair of activist scholars one specialising in health the other education - will explore what is institutional racism? how to identify it? and critically how to disrupt it?

★ DR LIANA MACDONALD ★
Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Te Kura Māori, Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington
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Dr Liana MacDonald recently completed her PhD on silencing and institutional racism in settler-colonial education. The research explored long-held tensions that emerged from her own schooling, those of whānau, and through working as an English teacher for 11 years in three secondary schools.

Liana is interested in researching how racism, whiteness, and settler-colonialism is manifest in institutions and as lived experience. She is currently a research fellow for the study He Taonga te Wareware?: Remembering and Forgetting Difficult Histories in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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★ DR HEATHER CAME ★
Senior Lecturer, Taupua Waiora Centre for Māori Health Research, Auckland University of Technology

Dr Heather Came is a seventh generation Pākehā New Zealander who grew up on Ngātiwai land. She has worked for 25 years in health promotion, public health and/or Māori health and has a long involvement in social justice activism in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Heather is a founding member and co-chair of STIR: Stop Institutional Racism, a fellow of the Health Promotion Forum, longstanding member of Public Health Association and an active member of Tāmaki Tiriti Workers.

She currently embraces life as an activist scholar. She was lead author of Te Tiriti-based practice in health promotion (2017), is a prolific writer and has led shadow reports to various United Nations human rights committees around institutional racism.

She is a Senior Lecturer based in the Taupua Waiora Māori Health Research Centre within Auckland University of Technology. Her research focuses on critical policy analysis, te Tiriti o Waitangi, anti-racism and institutional racism in health sector.

On the day of, go to this link: https://zoom.us/j/122401459