Pania Newton
Pania Newton
New Zealand
Social Equity
Lawyer and activist for Māori land rights; co-founder of the campaign and battle to protect ancestral land at Ihumātao
Bio

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Mission
Campaigning as an activist for Māori rights, environmental protection and constitutional transformation; recently co-led the #ProtectIhumatāo campaign to protect ancestral land in Auckland from corporate desecration.
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Interests
Sovereignty
Law
Climate Justice and Sustainability
program
Pania Newton
is an Atlantic Fellow for

Social Equity

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The Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity is an Indigenous-led lifelong, collaborative fellowship program and platform for systemic change. It harnesses timeless Indigenous knowledge, ingenuity, and creativity to bring a unique approach to transformative change. The program provides a place to strengthen and develop Indigenous social change capability through collaboration and fellowship. It connects individual leaders to create a powerful network of Fellows immersed in Indigenous knowledge (grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being) and theoretical and skills development for social change leadership.
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YEAR JOINED
ATLANTIC FELLOWS
2022
fellows in
New Zealand
222
fellows in
Social Equity
222
Location
New Zealand
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Atlantic Institute

United in their pursuit of equity, Atlantic Fellows come from all walks of life and a variety of professions.

They are a global community of leaders—advocates, artists, journalists, lawyers, business professionals, health practitioners, government officials, academics and researchers—who collaborate to advance equity, opportunity and human dignity.

Fellows are thinkers and doers with innovative ideas and the courage, conviction and capacity to bring lasting improvements to their communities and the world.