Professor Tracie Mafileʻo, of Palmerston North, MNZM for services to Pacific and tertiary education
Professor Tracie Mafileʻo has amplified Pacific voices as Co-Founder and Director of Mana Pacific Consultants. She is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) at Avondale University in New South Wales, Australia. Her scholarship includes more than 50 publications, spanning Pacific-Indigenous social work theory, decolonising research methodologies, and cultural frameworks for practice. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea and Associate Professor in the Massey University School of Social Work. She has volunteered with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Professor Mafileʻo has been a member of the New Zealand Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee and the Manawatū Pasifika Fusion secondary schools festival.