Rebecca Lee Ammunson

Rebecca has a BA in History and English from the University of Waikato and completed the intensive te reo Māori course, Te Tohu Paetahi. Rebecca is invested in doing her part in re-indigenizing Aotearoa, improving the whakawhanaungatanga between ngā iwi Māori and ngā iwi Pākehā, and most importantly, reconnecting to whānau and whenua.

Her summer project focused on young people growing up in the shadow of war. Using oral histories Rebecca explored how the war shaped childhood and post-war work experiences in Te Whāiti, Kuhawaea (now Galatea) and Rotorua.