Hawaiʻi Rising

A conversation about EAducation and student leadership with student representatives Hema Watson and Leinani Gutierrez-Kelley and advisor Trevor Atkins from Ke Ea Hawaiʻi.

Ke Ea Hawaiʻi is an interscholastic student council composed of elected representatives from 17 Hawaiian-focused charter schools. After a two year COVID break, theyʻre relaunching their transformative 5-day immersive summer and winter camps for the newly elected ʻaha (student council).

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An interview about reconnecting ʻohana and ʻāina with Kalei Miner and Iokepa Miner from Kuhialoko on Oʻahu.

Kuhialoko promotes Native Hawaiian, Indigenous, and culture-based land, species, and natural resource management. As an ʻohana, they encourage the growth and education of family units to reconnect with ʻāina and each other. They do this work in an area riddled with the impacts of displacement, disconnection, misuse, urbanization, and militarization. Their stewardship revitalizes the area’s historic level of cultural importance, abundance of natural resources and native species, and community based subsistence and connections.

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An interview about community empowerment and language access with Eola Lokebol, an advocate and interpreter at Waipahu Safe Haven Immigrant and Migrant Resource Center.

Waipahu Safe Haven provides holistic programs and services with language access to empower and uplift Hawaii’s immigrant and migrant communities, primarily serving our growing Marshallese and Chuukese communities as well as Samoans and Filipinos. The Center convenes Chuukese and Marshallese steering committees to guide programs and build support for their respective communities.

Website: waipahusafehaven.com/

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A conversation about intergenerational community development with Trina Nahm-Mijo, president and founder of the Grassroots Community Development Group, or GCDG, on Hawaiʻi Island.

GCDG has been a 501(c)(3) since 2005 and is best known for its award-winning program Keaʻau Youth Business Center (now Hawaiʻi Youth Business Center), which piloted an innovative hands-on skill-building curriculum in music and sound recording, digital arts, and culinary Arts. GCDG’s project Moʻo Pōʻai: Kūpuna Naue ʻŌpio has two parts. The Kūpuna component develops capacity in communities on Hawai’i Island to learn about the practice and application of Hoʻokuʻu ka hewa/Hoʻoponopono ʻike to health and social services in their communities. The ʻŌpio component supports media literacy classes in schools to increase social media proficiency while supporting social justice values in Hawaiʻi Island youth.

Website: gcdghawaii.org

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An interview about ʻāina stewardship and community care with Kuʻulei Keakealani and Monika Frazier, the cultural director and interim executive director of Hui Aloha Kīholo.

Hui Aloha Kīholo is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the Kīholo Bay area on Hawaiʻi Island through collaborative management and active community stewardship. They work closely with the Division of State Parks through a Curatorship Agreement to steward the Kīholo State Park Reserve.

Website: https://www.huialohakiholo.org/

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A conversation about peace-building and intergenerational community care with Laulani Teale, the coordinator of the Hoʻopae Pono Peace Project.

Hoʻopae Pono Peace Project builds strength in the Hawaiian community, and in its connections with others, through culture-based support for the prevention and resolution of family and community issues, support for youth as nonviolent warriors, and promotion of nonviolent solution-building and activism.

Website: https://www.eapono.org/

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Our third ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi special episode with guest host Krisha Zane. 

He kamaʻilio ʻana me Tanya Mailelani Naehu (Hui o Kuapā) e pili ana i ka hana o kona hui i ka loko iʻa ʻo ʻŌhalahala ma ke ahupuaʻa ʻo Kūmimi ma ka mokupuni ʻo Molokai. 

For our English-language episode with Maile and Hanohano Naehu, see episode 1. Hui o Kuapā: Restoring Fish Ponds on Molokai.

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ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi special with guest host Krisha Zane.

E hoʻolohe mai i ko Kekaiokalani Naone (Uluhāhāloa) lāua ʻo Kalani Puaoi (Mole Kumu) manaʻo e pili ana i ke kalo ma ka ʻaoʻao mahiʻai, ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana, a me ka ʻaiaola.

For our English-language interview with Kekai and his co-founder Lahela Paresa, see episode 35. Uluhāhāloa: Kalo, Cookbooks, and Community. For our English-language interview with Kalani, see episode 38. Mole Kumu: Kalo and Food Security for the Westside.

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An interview about kalo cultivation and food security with Kalani Puaoi from Mole Kumu.

Mole Kumu is a culture-based organization in the ahupuaʻa of Waipiʻo on Oʻahu that uses Hawaiian core values to help guide what food security and sustainability looks like. They actively promote food security, community health, and aloha ‘āina through a cultural lens. Their programs include kalo and ‘ulu cultivation, indigenous microorganisms, community education, and lāʻau lapaʻau (traditional Hawaiian healing plants).

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Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi special with guest host Krisha Zane ma ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi!

Kamaʻilio ʻo Krisha me ʻĀinaaloha Ioane e pili ana i nā mele a ʻAnakala Skippy Ioane a me ka hana o ka hui ʻo Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation.

For our English-language interview with ʻĀinaaloha and Haʻawina Ioane, see episode 5. Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation: Growing Up in King's Landing in our feed.

For an immersive special episode from KWILF's 2021 Makahiki celebration, see Celebrating Makahiki in Keaukaha.

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