Rāhera (Waikato/Tainui, Te Patupō and Tūwharetoa) primarily works as the NZSL Consultant and Company Manager for Equal Voices Arts. Equal Voices Arts is an award winning Deaf and hearing international theatre company passionate about inclusive and accessible work. Rāhera’s role as a Company Manager is to provide Deaf leadership within the company. Working alongside her hearing colleagues through non-hierarchical management. She organizes and helps to manage many different projects, including providing creative NZSL consultancy for performances, delivering Deaf Awareness workshops, and facilitating different training opportunities for the Deaf community. Rāhera is passionate about raising the profile of signed languages on stage, and supporting Deaf performers and Deaf audiences. Rāhera has co-lectured with EVA’s Artistic Director Laura Haughey, at Universities in Aotearoa and overseas about Equal Voices Arts’ approach to making original bicultural and bilingual theatre work. Rāhera also consults with government organizations and arts organizations about how to make funding opportunities and events more accessible for D/deaf communities. Rāhera is also a part of a research team on Dr Laura Haughey’s European Commission funded project which is designing culturally and linguistically accessible moving mindfulness practices, to support both general wellbeing, and also to become the foundational actor training practice for our Deaf and hearing artistic team.