Tania Waikato is a New Zealand lawyer and public figure with affiliations across both the Green Party [15] and, according to a single secondary source, Te Pāti Māori [17].
Waikato holds a conjoint Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (Māori), and, according to a single secondary source, also an LLM with First Class Honours [13][14]. Her legal career is confirmed across multiple sources [2], and she has worked in a range of legal settings. According to a single secondary source, she worked in the litigation, employment, and resource management teams at Cooney Lees Morgan from 2004 [5], and in mining and planning law at Blake Dawson in Sydney [7]. A single secondary source also indicates she worked in the Māori Legal and Resource Management teams at Russell McVeagh [4].
According to a single secondary source, Waikato has specialised in areas including Māori businesses and organisations, Māori land trusts, Te Tiriti and constitutional law, employment law, health and safety, resource management, and the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act [6]. She is also noted, from a single secondary source, as a director of Tamaki Legal [12] and as having acted as a lawyer for Te Pāti Māori [3].
Beyond her legal practice, a single secondary source describes Waikato as a practitioner of kairongoā [1] and the owner of a business producing Māori medicinal balms [8]. She is also noted, according to a single secondary source, as a published academic author in New Zealand and Japan [9].
In terms of civic roles, a single secondary source records her as an inaugural trustee of the Rangitaiki River Environmental Fund Trust [10] and as a representative on the Rangitaiki Hapū Coalition [11]. Her affiliation with the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is noted from 2012 in one secondary source [16], while her Green Party membership is confirmed across multiple sources [15].