Cr Marie Laufiso

Ki te mana whenua o tēnei rohe, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou katoa

E kā mana, E kā reo, E kā hau e whā ~ Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou katoa

Tēnā Koe, Assalamu Alaykom, Ni Hao, Namaste, Hola, Mabuhay, Konnichiwa, Mālo Ni, Kia Orāna, Ni Sā Bula Vinaka, Fakaalofa Lahi Atu, Tālofa, Māuri, Halo Olageta, Halo Olgeta, Noa'ia, Mālō E Lelei, Fa’atālofa Atu

• Ōtepoti-born-and-raised
• 4th-term councillor
• [2016] first Pāsifika elected member for both Green Party (national), DCC
• BA (Pacific Island Studies, Otago), Dip Adult Ed. (TWOA)

Our parents’ modelling of tautua service led my siblings and me to serve in our nu’u village of Brockville, city-wide, regionally, nationally and internationally. While grounded in my ‘80s and ‘90s lived-experience as a flax-roots, Te Tiriti-based, on-the-dole community development practitioner, I’ve advocated for aroha ki te tākata love for the people as the key principle underlying strategic “7-Generations” governance.