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Our Team
Stephanie Pope
Stephanie has been involved with Te Wana since its inception through her Program Director role in Australia. She assisted in development of the standards, reviewer training and was Review Coordinator for two New Zealand reviews each year through to 2006. Stephanie held the position of Te Wana Director during 2007/08 and returned as transition leader in June 2012. Stephanie has extensive experience working in Ministry and community non-government organisations and has clinical experience.
Jane Clark
Jane joined Te Wana staff in August 2012 having been Te Wana Internal Contact for Nelson-Marlborough-West Coast Plunket and a regular Te Wana peer reviewer since 2005. She has organisational and administrative strengths from working in health and extensive experience in review management as well as coordinating the Trans-Tasman training for Te Wana. Jane enjoys building a relationship and supporting organisations to achieve excellence and to be the best they can be.
Charlene Ratana
Te Arawa – Ngati Tuwharetoa. Charlene’s journey in health started in 2006 as a young mother working for Ngati Porou Hauora. After moving to Wellington, Charlene started employment with Health Care Aotearoa and also started training as a Reviewer for Te Wana Quality Programme. Charlene rejoined Te Wana in 2016 and enjoys being able to work alongside a dynamic team who endeavour to deliver a quality service ‘for the people, by the people’ in supporting the kaupapa of Te Wana.
Anthea Jackson
Anthea holds a Masters of Social Work and post graduate qualifications in human resource management. Anthea has worked in the health, housing and human services sectors in both government and not for profit contexts, and as an assessor in these sectors for many years. Her experience includes direct service delivery within child and family health, specialist housing services, child safety and early intervention, out of home care, early childhood and disability services. She also has many years’ experience managing multifaceted services at both an operational and strategic level and an active participant on not-for-profit Boards.
Justine
Justine joined Te Wana in 2025, to support us with programme reviews.
Jemimah Hicks
Jemimah started with Te Wana in 2023, and has been supporting the organisation in areas such as the panui newsletter, training registrations and travel bookings.
Te Mako Orzecki
Ngāti Pikiao Ko tā Te Mako tino kai ko te kōrero
Te Mako believes the most important food to partake of are conversations. An ex-schoolteacher, Te Mako has facilitated a number of online and face to face Professional Learning Service (PLS) programmes in the areas of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te reo Māori, cultural competencies, and coaching-mentoring. He currently is a kaiako at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
Born and raised in Porirua in the heart of Cannons Creek, Te Mako's upbringing hastaught him the value of communities. He continues working with people from many cultures whilst sharing his own personal story of identity and culture.
“I immerse myself in the practices of whanaungatanga (relationship building),
manaakitanga (being of service), whakamana i te reo Māori (raising the status of Māori language in Aotearoa), and tino rangatiratanga (agency and self-
determination) both within my work and outside of my work life. It’s what grounds me”
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