Natasha Hanisi
Natasha Hanisi is co-Director of Te Moana nui a Kea Limited (TMAK) alongside Bronwyn Hokianga-Wilson and Board Member of leading Australian Indigenous technology company Alliance Community Group. She has Tongan heritage from the Tongilava, Lea’aetoa and Lokotui clans. She is a Yindindji First Nations member and Yidindji Ambassador to the Pacific and has worked extensively with First Nations communities across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.
Natasha has lived and worked internationally in Sydney, London and Tonga for the last 30 years, building expertise across education, law, cultural strategy, governance, technology, data privacy and data sovereignty. She has contributed to international projects in digital infrastructure and sovereign identity, advancing frameworks that embed Indigenous sovereignty and legal principles in investment and economic development.
Natasha is currently developing scholarship and practice that positions Indigenous law as a foundation for cultural revitalisation, rule of law, legal enforcement, arbitration, digital sovereignty, and future-focused economic systems. With a passion for traditional Polynesian dance, she lives with her family and children on Cabrogal land in Sydney, Australia.
