Ara Taiohi

Proud Māori and māmā of 2 daughters, values driven, believes in Mana Taiohi Revolution! 

I always knew I wanted to work in service alongside people and feel like I am making a positive contribution to society. I explored many ways to do this via hospo, government, mental health, wellbeing and many others. But my journey started or if you would like to say ‘my flame was ignited’ when I did a youth mentoring programme part of BGI called Challenge for Change. Instantly my wairua felt at home in that space and knew from then on, I was where I needed to be!  So today I show up to challenge the status quo, stand in my Māori culture proudly and support like minded people in this haerenga to uplift rangatahi and their voice! Woohoo lessgo!