My research promotes Māori emancipation from harmful statutory processes with specific focus on indigenous interventions in statutory agency systems. My PhD research introduced the concept of legislative harm and statutory agency violence, and focused on Ngāi Tūhoe interventions across New Zealand Police, Oranga Tamariki and The Courts’ legislative frameworks. Moreover, my research employs mātauranga Māori approaches through a pūrākau lens to reframe contemporary issues from a Māori perspective, eliciting uniquely indigenous responses. Grounded in the lived grassroots realities of whānau, hapū and iwi activism, my research builds on my passion to champion kaupapa Māori responses to contemporary issues in the face of deficient conventional mainstream approaches. I am currently applying threads of this research to two community-based projects exploring kaupapa Māori evaluation and one whānau-based trades training model implementing a tuakana-teina approach in the construction industry.