Elizabeth Kerekere Age, Bio, Parents, Net Worth, Husband

Elizabeth Kerekere is an LGBTQ+ activist and scholar. This article looks at Elizabeth Kerekere and her career. Elizabeth Anne Kerekere is a New Zealand politician and LGBTQ activist and scholar. Since 2020, she has been a member of parliament for the Green Party. She is the founder and chair of Tīwhanawhana Trust. 

Elizabeth Kerekere Age

56 years old.

Elizabeth Kerekere Nationality

New Zealand

Elizabeth Kerekere Biography

Elizabeth Kerekere was born on 1966 in New Zealand.

Throughout her studies at EIT, Kerekere focussed on mana tupuna (ancestors), mana wahine (women) and mana takatapui (the right to live and love regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity) and was the only degree graduate to have a solo exhibition. 

After graduating from EIT, Kerekere spent the following five years researching the development of takatapui identity in the 21st century at Victoria University of Wellington, arguing that pre-colonial Māori were sexually experimental people who openly accepted gender and sexual fluidity.

Elizabeth Kerekere Parents

Her father, Karauria Tarao “Bison” Kerekere, was an artist and master carver. He was Māori, and of the Te Whānau a Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Ngāti Oneone iwi. 

Elizabeth's mother Erin is Irish, from County Clare and County Tipperary.

Elizabeth Kerekere Career

Kerekere stood in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the 2017 New Zealand general election. 

She placed third of three candidates with 1,924 votes. Kerekere will be running for the Green Party again in 2020, again for the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate, and is ninth on their party list.

She is the Founder/Chair of Tīwhanawhana Trust (2000), a scholar and an activist within the LGBTQ+ community in New Zealand. She identifies as takatāpui and produced the first major research on mental health and the culture of on the takatāpui whānau.

Elizabeth Kerekere Husband

Kerekere is a lesbian, and is married to Alofa Aiono, whom she met in 1992. 

She has no children.

The couple held their civil union in Te Papa's marae, Te Marae Rongomaraero, which Kerekere advised on the design of.

Elizabeth Kerekere Children

There are no records on the internet indicating that she has children biologically or is a mother.

Elizabeth Kerekere Net Worth

Unknown