The IWC Committee

Committee Member

Dr Lynne Russell is Manutaki Takirua | Co-Director of Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora | Health Services Research Centre at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington.

Much of Lynne's professional and academic work has centred around the Indigenous knowledge and healing practices used in recovery from trauma associated with mental distress, suicide loss and self-harm. She describes herself as an writer, activist and public speaker stirred by cultural resilience, social justice, Indigenous and LGBTI rights, and the amplification of voices more readily silenced in society.