Amanda Yates
Amanda Yates
Amanda works with councils, iwi and communities exploring place-based, indigenous-led strategies and actions for urban transformation in an era of climate and biodiversity emergency. She is an associate professor in AUT's Huri Te Ao, the School of Future Environments. Amanda is the programme leader and principal investigator of the Urban Wellbeing Research Programme in New Zealand’s National Science Challenge (NSC) Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities (BBHTC). She directs He Puna Ora, a regenerative action lab focused on urban system change, and is the co-curator of Whakaora.