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.
Greg Taipari Trustee
Communication manager, media advisor, and ministerial press secretary.
Aratika Circle of Care
Tove Jensen-Munroe Trustee
Claire Gower-James Manager
Super Hero. Mother. She keeps us all organized and takes care of every little precious detail.
Claire Taipari Trustee
Sarah Jameson Treasurer
Associate chartered accountant, member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand.
Māmā of two. Cancer survivor.
Former Support Manager with the Rotorua Children's Team.
Studying with Te Wānanga o Raukawa on her Te Reo Maori Jouney.
Te Ati Haunui a Pāpārangi / Ngāi Tūhoe
Barbara Hochstein
Founding Trustee
Guiding Patron
Radiologist and our former chair.
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
Former Trustee
Empowering soul who left us on 17 Dec 2020. Profoundly missed. Teacher, spirited, artistic and inspirational.
Doreen Vroom-Barclay
Former Trustee
Local Rotorua business owner from the Netherlands. Cancer thriver, determined and charming.
Former Trustee
Dedicated, hardworking, and passionate about her business.
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.