Heather Came
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Heather Anne Came {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} (also known as Heather Came-Friar) is a New Zealand activist, academic and anti-racism scholar, and is an adjunct professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and an anti-racism consultant. In 2023 Came was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.
Early life and education
Came is a seventh-generation Pākehā New Zealander.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-3202 |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=orcid.org}} Came completed a Master of Political Science degree at the University of Canterbury, after which she became interested in public health. She earned a Certificate in Health Promotion from the University of Otago in Wellington, through distance learning.{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Margie |date=23 January 2023 |title=Honour recognises advocacy for equity, social justice and anti-racism |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/honour-recognises-advocacy-for-equity-social-justice-and-anti-racism |website=Newsroom, University of Otago}} She then followed this with a PhD titled Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health at the University of Waikato.{{Cite thesis |title=Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health |last=Came |first=Heather |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of Waikato |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6397 |date=2012}}
Career
Came joined the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology, rising to associate professor in 2022.{{Cite news |date=1 Nov 2021 |title=New Professors and Associate Professors |url=https://www.aut.ac.nz/news/stories/new-professors-and-associate-professors-3 |access-date=20 July 2024 |work=AUT News}} In 2023 she was appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health at Victoria University of Wellington. Came conducts critical policy analysis research and activism aimed at social and racial justice, and she has campaigned for recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 2013 Came founded the group STIR: Stop Institutional Racism, of which she became co-chair. In 2020 she founded a series of virtual anti-racism and decolonisation gatherings called Te Tiriti based futures + Anti racism (Decol).{{Cite web |title=Heather Came |url=https://communityresearch.org.nz/researchers/heather-came-friar/ |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Community Research}}{{Cite web |last=Maasland |first=Shoshana |date=June 19, 2020 |title=Anti-racism books fly off the shelves in NZ in wake of US protests |url=https://tewahanui.nz/crime-And-justice/racism-books-fly-off-the-shelves-as-us-protests-heat-up |access-date=20 July 2024 |website=Te Waha Nui}}
Honours and awards
In the New Years Honours of 2023 Came was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori, education and health.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-31 |title=New Year Honours List 2023 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit {{!}} Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/ny2023-mnzm |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=www.dpmc.govt.nz |language=en}}
In 2021 Came jointly won the Public Health Association's Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion Award.{{Cite web |date=2018-07-19 |title=Heather Came |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/heather-came-519802 |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Public Health Awards |url=https://www.pha.org.nz/public-health-awards |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Public Health Association |language=en-NZ}}
Selected works
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- {{CiteQ|Q57640728}}
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- {{CiteQ|Q97569762}}
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- {{CiteQ|Q57640732}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyjlgqpAeNA Max Harris and Heather Came on proposed treaty legislation], Moana Maniapoto sits down with Max Harris and Heather Came, 27 March 2024, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:University of Waikato alumni
Category:New Zealand political scientists
Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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