Tracey McIntosh

Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngāi Tūhoe and is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Head of School of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland. She is a Commissioner of Te Kāhui Tātari Ture: Criminal Cases Review Commission and a former Chief Science Advisor for MSD. Tracey is a prison abolitionist scholar.

Her recent research focused on incarceration (particularly of Māori and Indigenous peoples) and issues pertaining to state care, state harm, community response to harm, poverty, inequality and social justice. She recognises the significance of working with those that have lived experience and expertise of processes of marginalisation and acknowledges them as experts of their own condition. She has a strong interest in the interface between research and policy.