Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kati Mamoe, Kai Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Maori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She has a PhD in film and media studies and is the author of various journal articles as well as Maori Television: The first ten years (Auckland University Press, 2016). Jo also co-edited (with Jessica Hutchings) Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Maori soil sovereignty and wellbeing handbook (Freerange Press, 2020). Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngai Tahu, Ngati Huirapa, Gujarati) is a senior kaupapa Maori research leader, author, activist and Hua Parakore grower who lives on a small whanau farm in Kaitoke, north of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She is the founding trustee of Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust, which works to uplift Indigenous food sovereignty through decolonising research, education and practice, and holds a PhD in environmental studies. She has worked for the past three decades in the Maori research sector, leading and supporting kaupapa Maori research.