Ella Henry Biography

Ella has an academic background in Sociology, Māori Studies and Management Studies, her Masters' thesis focused on Māori women in management. Ella has also been actively involved in Māori broadcasting. During the 1980s, while a member of Auckland University Students' Association, Ella organised the first on-campus Māori film festivals. In 1996 Ella and a group of colleagues formed Ngā Aho Whakaari, the Association of Māori in film, video and television. In recent years Ella has worked more directly in Māori broadcasting, as a radio announcer for urban Māori Radio Waatea, presenting a show called Ask Your Auntie on Māori Television for three years and taking a number of other acting and presenting roles. Ella has returned to academia for the first time since leaving her post as Head of Puukenga School of Māori Education at Unitec, after working in business and media for a number of years, to pursue her research and teaching interests. Her experiences in Māori broadcast underpin her PhD study, which explores Māori entrepreneurship in screen production.

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