Kera Sherwood-O'Regan is a Māori woman from the South Island of New Zealand concerned with climate change and indigenous rights.
[3] She is member of the board of Ora Taiao[4] who are an organisation of health professionals championing action to mitigate climate change.
She got the media's attention when she told the delegates that the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change wanted them to "Stop taking up space with your false solutions and get out of our way".
O'Regan was asked as "a leading commentator" by the British newspaper The Guardian to give her verdict in the previous administration.
[9] She was named as one of the BBC 100 Women for 2023 in recognition of her work on climate change and indigenous rights and as a disability advocate.