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Encouraging children’s radical imagination with a multi-sensory local story.

The local author, Stacey Mareroa-Roberts, is a mother of three from Te Puna in Tauranga. She is a writer, poet international speaker, and the creative director of Ignite Your Gift. Stacey is a passionate Wāhine Māori with the superpower of visionary storytelling to inspire, connect and empower others and share their gifts with others for success.

In her graduating year at the University of Waikato, where she conjoined Law and Social Science degrees with a Major in Iwi/Māori history, Stacey won the Huia Publishing Prize for Top Student in faculty and Excellence in History (2011) but she didn’t take it up at the time. Now, 18 years later, after a career in law and business development she has written and self-published her own piece of local “herstory.”