Brown girl in the ring: a Pacific academic takes her gloves off
What’s it like to be in a minority and sitting at the meeting room table, one of very few female, let alone brown, faces?
In this talk, highly successful Pacific academic Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath, relates how academia can be a lonely place at the top for a brown female leader as she navigates power at “the intersection of hypervisibility, invisibility, colourism and gender”.
Touching on real-life examples, Jemaima will talk candidly about institutional racism, sexism and feminism, as seen through her eyes.
If you want to learn how to have thick-skin, strengthen resilience and navigate challenging and complex environments, then this talk is for you.
Bio
Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath is Co-Head of School, Te Wānanga Waipapa, School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies. She is of Samoan descent and has a public/community health background. She was recently appointed a member to the inaugural Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission and was one of six panellists on the New Zealand Government’s 2018 Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry.
8:00pm @Little Easy Fort Street, 63 Fort Street, Auckland Central, AKL 1010
Also speaking at this location at 6:30pm is Sandeeka Mannakara.
