Aphiphany Forward-Taua (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hinerangi) is the Executive-Director of Just Speak, a justice advocacy NGO based in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is a graduate of Law and Commerce from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. She is passionate about social, justice and environmental reform and is committed to Just Speak’s mission of transformational change of the justice system.