Board of governors

• Tristine Clark

  National President

  Tristine lives on a lifestyle block in Oamaru having recently moved there from the family farm. She works in marketing and sales in a local newspaper. Tristine has two grown up sons, Morgan and Tyler and is a qualified dance teacher. Tristine is passionate about locally based community initiatives, and actively participates as the past chairperson of the Waitaki Family Health Trust committee, as a member of the Safekids Coalition and returning officer for a Board of Trustees.

  Tristine has been involved with Plunket for 26 years, holding many governance roles at local and national level. Tristine has also been awarded life membership.

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• Elizabeth (Liz) King

  Liz has an adult son, lives in North Shore City and whakapapa's back to Hunterville in the Rangitikei, Palmerston North and Rangiotu in the Manawatu. She has 35 years' experience in office administration, management and accounting, and is currently a manager with Dimension Surveyors Ltd.

  Over the last 20 years she has had various roles with Plunket in sub-branch, family centre, branch and area level, including eight years as the New Zealand Councilor for Waitemata prior to her election in 2004 to the Board. Liz is an Executive Member of the RNZAC / Flying NZ, and represents the Northern Region.

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• Te Aomarama Wilson

  Te Aomarama is married with 5 children and 8 grandchildren and lives in a remote part of Waiuku. She first became involved with Plunket in 1987, joined the Māori Caucus to represent the Tainui area in 2002, and was elected as a Māori Board member in 2006.

  She is passionate about working with her people in their communities and helping build inter-cultural relationships. Since July 2007 she has been involved with the Mana Whenua i Tamaki Makaurau Board responsible to iwi within the Counties Manukau district health board area.

  No reira nga mihinui me nga manaakitanga o te rungarawa.

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• Annette Ireton

  Annette lives in Timaru with two of her four children. She is a director of two funeral companies in the South Island and also currently works part time as a personal assistant.

  Annette has been a volunteer with Plunket for 25 years and has held positions at all levels and has been honoured with the award of Life Member.

  She received the Timaru District individual community award for her volunteer service to Plunket and Annette is currently a member of the National Council of Women. Rotary has also honoured Annette as a Paul Harris Fellow.

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• Andree Talbot

  Andree’s involvement with Plunket began with the arrival of the first of her two children over 12 years ago.

  Since then she has served in a number of roles from local sub-branch through to New Zealand Councillor and now, board member. She has also been actively involved in her community for many years.

  Living on Auckland’s North Shore with her husband, daughter and son, Andree is a solicitor with Simpson Western, a law firm based in Takapuna.

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• Gloria Eves

  Gloria is a mother of 4 children. She become involved with Plunket after the birth of her third child.

  Gloria has been a volunteer for Plunket in Taupo since 1996, having held positions of Vice President and President of the Taupo Branch. She was appointed Acting New Zealand Councillor to represent the Lakes Area in December 2006 and duly elected in July 2007. Gloria was elected to the Board in November 2010.

  Gloria has lived in Taupo for the past 16 years. Gloria is passionate about the rights of children to lead safe and healthy lives in order to reach their full potential. She is presently employed as the Taupo Violence Intervention Network Coordinator.

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• Colleen Te Arihi

  Ngaiterangi, Ngati Awa, Ngati Porou

  Colleen lives on Matakana Island where she was born and raised by her grandparents. Life revolves around her whānau, hapu, marae, whenua and the small island community where everyone has a close affinity with the land and the sea.

  She has experience in management and governance within the public and private sectors including community health and Kaupapa Māori health services. Currently she is the deputy chair of the Western Bay of Plenty PHO and a trustee of the Te Rangihouhiri Marae.

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• Christine Lake

  Christine is a born and bred Cantabrian and a mother of two boys. She first joined Plunket when she returned to New Zealand after a few years in the UK as a way of meeting new people in Christchurch.

  She has been a Plunket volunteer in Canterbury since 2000, and has worked in a variety of roles including Entity Treasurer, Family Centre President, Branch President, New Zealand Councillor and now Board member.

  Christine is passionate about the support Plunket gives families in those crucial early years. In her spare time she enjoys the occasional social round of golf and is also on her local Golf Club Committee. Christine is also Treasurer of the Dyspraxia Support Group of NZ.

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• Kylie Morrison

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