Dr. Ngahuia Murphy (Ngati Manawa, Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngati Kahungunu,Te Arawa) is an award winning scholar, author, artist and public speaker committed to reclaiming and reactivating Indigenous women's sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Her widely celebrated research work in Aotearoa New Zealand has been instrumental in reviving 'lost' Maori menstruation rites of passage and women's ceremonies that were deliberately erased through patriarchal colonial processes. Her books 'Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Maori world' (based on her award winning Master's thesis) and 'Waiwhero: A celebration of womanhood' continue to be wildly popular, inspiring a broad movement of reclamation concerning Maori women's ceremony. The books have inspired multiple art exhibitions, international and national theater works, a short film and documentaries on the revival of Maori matrilineal knowledge. Ngahuia's publications have been distributed in all schools in Aotearoa New Zealand by The Ministry of Education recognising the empowering and transformative content.