Te-Hani Brown was born in 1996 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
[4] In January 2019 Brown resigned from the Democratic party to support the government of Henry Puna.
[5] Anti-party hopping laws forced her to resign from parliament.
She contested the subsequent by-election as an independent, and was re-elected,[6] but resigned the seat again just two weeks later when an electoral petition was filed.
[9] She was re-elected at the 2022 Cook Islands general election[10] and continued her support for Mark Brown.