Ko Ngāti Kauwhata o Kawakawa/Feilding raua ko Ngāti Hauā o Waikato/Tainui ōku iwi ki te taha o taku Māmā me te taha o taku Pāpā ko Mangaian/Cook Island and Tahitian.

Selina Metuamate is currently studying a BA of Kaitiakitanga Pūtaiao/environmental management at Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Her research interests focus on the health and wellbeing of her Māori iwi and the local community. Through the inequalities experienced by colonisation and the ongoing displacement of Māori from land and livelihood, new risks to health and wellbeing are continually generated. Selina’s work as a community researcher explores the role of tangata whenua negotiating deep inequalities in health outcomes that are brought about by the interpenetrating forces of settler colonialism and capitalism.