Te Awanui Reeder

Pae Ārahi (Head of Strategy) Hemisphere +Big River Creative and Co-founder, Koha

Aotearoa New Zealand

Te Awanui Reeder is Pae ārahi, or head of strategy, at Hemisphere + Big River Creative, a social media marketing agency that utilizes te ao Māori (Māori worldviews) to build sustainable technology and media solutions. He is also the co-founder and user-experience design lead of Koha, a culturally focused financial technology platform that served as the official platform for Toitū Te Tiriti, the movement against a bill that sought to diminish Indigenous rights from the nation's Treaty of Waitangi. A bridge between cultures and a master storyteller, he seeks to scale his locally proven frameworks into global models that empower Indigenous changemakers worldwide. Te Awanui’s work weaves cultural narrative into scalable technology and marketing solutions.