Innez Haua is Aotearoa Māori, a descendent of iwi; Ngāti Porou; Ngāi Tāmanuhiri; Rongowhakaata; Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki; Ngāti Kahungunu and a (grateful) settler on Dharug Ngurra.. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research focus include Indigenous diasporas, the entangled histories of Indigenous peoples (within settler states) and Indigenous cultural sustainability.