Aratika Board
Susan Brown Trustee Chair
Capers Cafe business owner. Physiotherapist. Celebrant. Mother. Retreat facilitator.
June Grant Founding Trustee
ONZM for services to Maori and Maori Art. Health Promotor Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhourangi/Ngati Wahiao.
Wendy Lewis Founding Trustee
Grandmother and retired Radiographer
Funding Co-ordinator.
Kylie Lang Trustee
Aratika circle of care
Tove Jensen-Munroe Trustee
Claire Gower-James Manager
Super Hero. She keeps us all organized and takes care of every little precious detail.
Sarah Jameson Treasurer
Associate chartered accountant, member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand.
Barbara Hochstein
Founding Trustee
Guiding Patron
Radiographer and our former chair.
Greg Taipari Trustee
Communication manager, media advisor, and ministerial press secretary.
Empowering you to live well
is our mission.
Aratika Cancer Trust empowers people impacted by a cancer diagnosis through evidenced-base information and resources illuminating the integrative and holistic nature of living well.
Former Trustees
Britta Norske
Founding Trustee
Meditation & Nutrition
Facilitator
More about Britta on our facilitator biography page.
Jane Saunders
Doreen Vroom-Barclay
Former Trustee
Local Rotorua business owner from the Netherlands. Cancer thriver, determined and charming.
Mereheeni Hooker
Former Trustee
Guiding light who left us on 14 June 2019. Profoundly missed. Her life was spent in service to education and her Maori community.