By Gail Brown. For the next blog post in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Vania Wolfgramm. Vania is a former rugby player for the famous Black Ferns. She loves the sport. Now, as the Women’s Rugby Development Manager at New Zealand Rugby (NZR), her job is to share her passion for rugby with other young ...
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By Mike Cousins | 31 January, 2019 | Categories:
Ambassador, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women, Sports Diplomacy
| Tags: Black Ferns, Gail Brown, New Zealand Rugby, Pacific Women Leaders, PWL, Rugby, Vania Wolfgramm
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Vanessa Masoa – Rugby player. Mentor. By profession, Vanessa Masoa is a Careers Development Consultant to the Tertiary Education Commission (formerly Careers New Zealand). By passion, Vanessa Masoa is a determined competitor who loves the adrenaline rush of playing rugby. She now ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 30 November, 2018 | Categories:
Ambassador, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: Ambassador Brown, Black Ferns Rugby, Gail Brown, Pacific Women Leaders, Porirua, PWL, Tertiary Education Commission, Vanessa Masoa
By Gail Brown, wife of US Ambassador Scott Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Nora Swann, Designer for the
Pacific Fusion Fashion Show . “I’m creative, flamboyant, loud, and fun. That’s me,” Nora Swann declares when asked to define her personal fashion style. She loves to visit op-shops to buy different patterns and textiles ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 24 September, 2018 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: #PacificWomen, Gail Brown, Nancy Elizabeth Thompson, Nora Swann, Pacific Fusion Fashion Show, Pita Nikolas Taufatafua
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Sera Tapu-Ta’ala, a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua. No one understands the serious health problem that diabetes inflicts on Pacific people better than Sera Tapu Ta’ala. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua, she has spent ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 17 August, 2018 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: Clinical Nurse Specialist, Gail Brown, Pacific Women Leaders, PWL, Sera Tapu Ta’ala
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Verona Parker – Broadcaster, Beauty Queen, Mother. When I sat down to interview Verona Parker she was still the General Manager of TV3 in Samoa. It’s a job she loved. However, change came in July when it was time to leave the television ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 3 August, 2018 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: #PacificWomen, Beauty Queen, Broadcaster, Gail Brown, Mother, Pacific Women Leaders, Verona Parker
U.S. Mission in New Zealand hosted the 2018 Independence Day event in Wellington last week, and in Auckland last night. Here are a selection of photos from each event: Wellington: Auckland: Related:
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By Public Affairs Section | 13 July, 2018 | Categories:
Ambassador, Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: Ambassador Scott Brown, Gail Brown, Independence Day, Independence Day 2018
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Jacqui Evans, director of “Marae Moana”. At the young age of sixteen, Jacqui Evans became fascinated with the beauty of the local marine life of the Cook Islands. Being a local, she would attend school trips to snorkel in the lagoon where ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 6 July, 2018 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: Ambassador Scott Brown, Cook Islands, Gail Brown, Jacqui Evans, Marae Moana, New Zealand, Pacific Women Leaders, PWL, Rarotonga
By Gail Brown. For the next blog post in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Niki Rattle – Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament. “It’s the sweetest coconut juice in the world,” says the Speaker of Cook Islands Parliament, Niki Rattle as I sit down to interview her on a hot November day in Rarotonga. The ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 9 February, 2018 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, First People's Connect, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: American Red Cross, Cook Islands, Cook Islands Parliament, Gail Brown, Niki Rattle, Pacific Women Leaders, Prime Minister Henry Puna, Rarotonga
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Ana File-Heather, owner of Red Door Coffee Bar and Unique Island Streetwear. Ana File-Heather is desperately trying to hire a new barista. She owns the Red Door Coffee Bar in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, but, ironically, coffee isn’t the main thing she wants to ...
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By Mike Cousins | 19 January, 2018 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: Ana File-Heather, Gail Brown, Pacific Women Leaders, Red Door Coffee Bar, Unique Island Streetwear
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson – Environmentalist and Climate Change Communicator. Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson proudly speaks about her culture as the reason why she started her work as first a journalist then as an environmental writer, communicator and now a policy advisor on environmental ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 15 December, 2017 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: Climate Change, Environmentalist, Gail Brown, Jacinda Ardern, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Pacific Women Leaders
By Gail Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series I met a fearless young woman, Ema, who has spent her professional career working in the criminal justice system in my new found home of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington. Ema is serious about delivering justice and she has committed her life to advocating for ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 27 October, 2017 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: #PacificWomen, Breakthrough Centre NZ, Ema Piutau, Gail Brown, New Zealand Department of Corrections, Pacific Women Leaders, Samoa
By Gail Brown. Welcome to the first in a
series of stories highlighting Pacific women for their contributions to humanity and the communities they serve. Earlier, I traveled to Samoa with my husband, U.S. Ambassador Scott Brown, to present his credentials to the new Head of State, His Highness Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II. After having the pleasure of meeting His Highness, ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 22 September, 2017 | Categories:
Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: #PacificWomen, Fani, Fealofani (Fani) Bruun, Gail Brown, His Highness Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, Moana movie, Pacific Women Leaders
By Gail Brown, wife of US Ambassador Scott Brown New Zealand and Samoa, known for their natural beauty, vibrant cultures, and thriving societies, was top of my husband’s list to serve our country as United States Ambassador abroad. New Zealand is home to some of the largest Pacific people’s diasporas, and a gate-way to South ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 15 September, 2017 | Categories:
News, Wahine Toa
| Tags: Gail Brown, Pacific Women Leaders, Samoa
Ambassador Scott Brown’s inaugural 4th of July Independence Day in New Zealand with a packed reception at the Hunter Lounge at the Victoria University of Wellington. Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee, represented the New Zealand government and was joined by hundreds of others including Ministers, members of the New Zealand Parliament, military, cultural and media representatives ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 20 July, 2017 | Categories:
Ambassador, News
| Tags: 4th of July Independence Day, Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee, Gail Brown, Independence Day 2017, U.S. Ambassador Brown
Join us in welcoming Ambassador-Designate Scott Brown and his wife Gail. They are arriving in New Zealand shortly and wanted to introduce themselves. Watch this video to learn more about Ambassador-Designate Brown, his family and career, and why the partnership between the United States and New Zealand is so important.
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By Public Affairs Section | 14 June, 2017 | Categories:
Ambassador, Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: Ambassador, Ambassador-Designate Scott Brown, Gail Brown, Scott Brown
