Ms Takutai Moana Kemp, ONZM, of Papakura, for services to street dance and youth
Takutai Moana Kemp is director of Hip Hop International New Zealand, which holds the qualifying event for New Zealand crews to represent at the International World Hip Hop Championship, and has managed New Zealand delegations to World Championships since 2008.
She is the national Hip Hop New Zealand Events Coordinator and the Auckland Regional Manager for Street Dance New Zealand. She is CEO of Te Kaha o Te Rangatahi.
She has worked with the University of Auckland to develop an innovative Rangatahi Mental Health Youth Hub in Manurewa to support wellbeing and address high suicide rates in rangatahi Māori.
She was invited to present the project at the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference.
Ms Kemp is CEO of Manurewa Marae and initiated exercise programmes for the wider Māori community.