Alisha Tsai has more than seven years of ELT support experience in the vocational education sector and ten years as an executive assistant in both the public and private sectors before that. Prior to her current role at Hanga-Aro-Rau, Ms Tsai was an Executive Assistant at Unitec Institute of Technology and the Committee Secretary of its Rūnanga Māori Advisory Committee.

 Ms Tsai was brought up in a family with a strong education background; she is passionate about working in an organisation that is here to drive transformational change in vocational education for future generations.