A new voice

Raised near Chicago, our new fortnightly Monday columnist, Lana Hart, emigrated in the late 1990s. She worked in the areas of human rights, diversity in employment, and migrant support while raising her three kids with her Auckland-born partner. The family have lived in New Zealand’s biggest city, its most remote village of Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park, and are now in fastest-changing Christchurch. A seasoned traveller, Lana spent over a year driving from South Africa to Morocco, has worked on every continent except South America, and visited various parts of the Philippines 10 times. She likes writing about social themes, scientific and human curiosities, and political and environmental issues. She is fascinated by evolutionary biology, human psychology, and gender differences.