Grace Hutton is of Palmerston Atoll, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Anaa in French Polynesia, and Welsh, married, and mother of 3 grown up children.  She has a BA (Hons) Anthropology and has been working at Te Papa Tongarewa as a Kaitiaki Taonga, (Collection Manager) Pacific Cultures since 2004. 

Grace is a union delegate for Te Papa, a practitioner of tivaevae making (Cook Islands embroidered quilts and cushions), Chair of the Cook Islands Society, and Chair of the Cook Islands Soldiers of World War One (CISWWO) a group to organise events for all Cook Islanders to commemorate our participation for New Zealand in WW1.  Her passion and interest is the Pacific and the Cook Islands in particular.