Editing Winnie Laban (section)

==Patronage and memberships==

In 2008 she was made Patron of the Cancer Society Relay for Life.<ref name=GG>{{cite web |title= The Honourable Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban, of Lower Hutt, DNZM, for services to education and the Pacific community |publisher= Office of the Governor-General |date= 2018 |url= https://gg.govt.nz/file/25666 |accessdate= 24 November 2020}}</ref>
In 2013 she was made a Patron of the Wainuiomata Pasifika Education Success Initiative.<ref name=GG/>
She was chair of the Pacific Arts Committee from 2013 to 2014. She was appointed to the Creative New Zealand Arts Council in 2014.<ref name=GG/>
She has been a member of the National University of Samoa Council since 2012 and the Institute of Judicial Studies Board since 2011.<ref name=GG/>
Since 2017 she has been a member of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research, the New Zealand Institute of Directors, the Commissioner of Police's National Pacific Advisory Forum, and an Auditor for the Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities.<ref name=GG/>

Her husband Peter Swain coauthored the memoir of longtime [[Prime Minister of Samoa]] [[Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pālemia: Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi of Samoa, A Memoir |url=https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/p-lemia-prime-minister-tuilaepa-sailele-malielegaoi-of-samoa-a-memoir/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |publisher=Te Herenga Waka University Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 April 2017 |title=PM Tuilaepa to release memoirs |url=https://www.talanei.com/2017/04/26/pm-tuilaepa-to-release-memoirs/ |access-date=2023-03-07 |website=Talanei}}</ref>