MIRIAMA KAMO

Miriama Kamo (Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Mutunga) is an award winning broadcaster, writer, speaker, and environmental advocate.

Miriama is the host of TV1’s flagship current affairs programme Sunday, and of Māori current affairs programme Marae. She is the Patron/Te Koruru of the NZer of the Year Awards. Since her appointment she’s been establishing an alumni network, a partnership model honouring te Tiriti (the Treaty of Waitangi) in the awards, and a pastoral care model for winners.

Miriama is an ambassador for Pillars, which ensures the voice of children of prison inmates is heard, Charity Foundations and Endometriosis NZ. As a speaker, Miriama is an advocate working to empower women and families to understand and embrace what she calls ‘The 4 M’s’; menstruation, miscarriage, motherhood and menopause.

She is co-founder and trustee of a charity called Kotahi Rau Pukapuka (KRP), an organisation which is working to fill the gap for older readers and learners of te reo Māori (the Māori language) by publishing 100 books in te reo Māori. Kotahi Rau Pukapuka was launched by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. Jacinda Ardern, in October 2019. Miriama is also a board member of charities Save the Kiwi and The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi.

Miriama joins us as MC of the 2024 Leadership Conference.