10. L’Rey Renata (Karaitiana)

Māori in Engineering

L’Rey Renata (Iwi: Tainui) is a Chemical and Materials Engineering student at Waipapa Taumata Rau, a māmā and an all round awesome person.

You may know of L’Rey from her mahi in the Water Resource Management space through her completion of her Honours project an ‘Water Engineers' Perspective on Interactions with Maaoridom in Water Management Solutions’. She recently presented a Water NZ webinar dedicated to her findings and the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.waternz.org.nz/Article?Action=View&Article_id=2106
In this episode, we delve into a lot! L’Rey speaks on how she came to study engineering, experiences studying as well as her findings of her Honours research project.

L’Rey speaks passionately and genuinely and it was a privilege to have a bit of her time for this episode!