About Wendy Hawke
Wendy Hawke was a New Zealand teacher.
Wendy Ruth Hawke is a New Zealand adoption advocate. She has been the executive director of Inter-Country Adoption New Zealand, also known as ICANZ, since 1995. The organisation was founded in 1989.
In 2014 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to inter-country adoption.
Early career Hawke was a teacher at St Cuthbert's College, Epsom. After adopting her children from Russia in 1992 through ICANZ, she then went onto volunteering at ICANZ. In 1995, Hawke then became the executive director. Her husband died in 2013 after a long illness.
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