Hawaiʻi Rising

By Hawaiʻi People‘s Fund

Conversations with grassroots community organizers at the forefront of progressive movements for change and justice in Hawai’i. A podcast series featuring community partners of Hawaiʻi People‘s Fund.... more

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The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.

Hawaiʻi Rising episodes:

March 20, 2026 100. Mutual Aid Lāhui: Feeding the Lāhui
A conversation with James Auld and Pua Summer from Mutual Aid Lāhui.
Mutual Aid Lāhui empowers the lāhui through education, advocacy, and mālama ‘āina and mobilizes to flank community events and relief work. The Mutual Aid Lāhui crew are passionate about feeding the Lāhui and providing support where it’s needed most.
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32min
March 06, 202699. March 2026 Community News: PFLAG Oʻahu and HAPA at the Legislature
Community news for March 2026! After headlines, we feature interviews with two HPF partners advocating for their communities during this legislative session:
First, Cameron Miyamoto (co-president of PFLAG Oʻahu) shares about PFLAG Oʻahu's participation in the 2nd annual Queer Day at the Capitol on February 17 and about HB 1875, a bill to protect access to gender-affirming care. To learn more about PFLAG Oʻahu, check out our full-length interview with the two co-presidents here.
Second, we hear an update from Anne Frederick, executive director of the Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA), and their focus on two legislative areas: getting money out of politics and protecting communities from pesticide drift. To see the data on pesticide use and learn more about the Safe Farms, Safe Food coalition, visit safefarmssafefood.com. To learn more about HAPA, check out our full-length interview with them here.
Links from headlines:
To see when our partners are hosting workdays and how to RSVP, visit hawaiipeoplesfund.org/calendar.
The survey on traumatic brain injury uplifted by Kamāwaelualani can be found here.
Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi episodes:
98. ʻĪmaikalani Winchester (Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu): "Hāpai i ke kuleana"
97. Pualiʻi Rossi (I Ola Wailuanui): "He aha ka makemake o ka ʻāina ʻo Wailuanui?"
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34min
March 03, 2026 98. ʻĪmaikalani Winchester (Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu): "Hāpai i ke kuleana"
A Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi episode featuring ʻĪmaikalani Winchester, lead organizer for the annual celebration of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea at Thomas Square, with guest host Hina Kaʻōpua Canonigo. Also check out our past English-language episode with the organizers of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu.
Ma kēia hualono, kamaʻilio ʻo ʻĪmaikalani Winchester e pili ana i ka moʻolelo o ka Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea.
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37min
February 20, 2026 Tanya Mailelani Naehu: Hoʻoulu ka ʻāina i Kūmimi (2023)
An ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi special episode from 2023 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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24min
February 13, 2026 Kū Kahakalau me Pōlani Kahakalau: Hoʻomau i ka ʻōlelo makuahine (2025)
In addition to fresh episodes in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi this Hawaiian Language Month, we're resharing this special episode in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi featuring Dr. Kū Kahakalau and Pōlani Kahakalau, with guest host Pualiʻi Rossi. Also check out our past English-language episode with Dr. Kū and Pōlani about EA Ecoversity.
Ma kēia hualono, kamaʻilio ʻo ʻAnakē Kū Kahakalau lāua ʻo Pōlani Kahakalau e pili ana i ko lāua hoʻomau ʻana i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma ka hale, ma ke kula, a ma ko lāua ʻoihana i kapa ʻia ʻo EA Ecoversity. ʻO ka mea hoʻokipa no ia kamaʻilio ʻana, ʻo ia ʻo Pualiʻi Rossi, he alakaʻi ma ka hui ʻo I Ola Wailuanui a he lālā ma ka hui ʻo Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action.
Website: www.kuakanaka.com/eaecoversity
Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii
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43min
February 06, 2026 97. Pualiʻi Rossi (I Ola Wailuanui): "He aha ka makemake o ka ʻāina ʻo Wailuanui?"
We kick off Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi with a special episode in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi featuring Pualiʻi Rossi, the president of I Ola Wailuanui, with guest host Brad Watanabe. Also check out our English-language episode about I Ola Wailuanui with Pualiʻi and her fellow board member Mason Chock.
Ma kēia hualono, kamaʻilio ʻo Pualiʻi Rossi e pili ana i kona aʻo ʻana i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi a me ka hana a ka hui ʻo I Ola Wailuanui, ʻo ia hoʻi, ka mālama ʻana i ka ʻāina ʻo Wailuanui no nā hanauna e hiki mai ana.
Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii
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39min
January 30, 2026 96. ʻĀina Kōnea: Establishing a Kīpuka in Wahiawā, Oʻahu
A conversation about ʻāina stewardship with Kekupuloa Kim from ʻĀina Kōnea.
ʻĀina Kōnea is a grassroots hui with the mission to restore the reciprocal ea between the kānaka and ʻāina of Wahiawā by way of cultural revitalization. They care for a kīpuka in the forest of Wahiawā Uka along a section of Kaukonahua Stream known as Kuaʻikua.
Website: https://www.ainakonea.org
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20min
January 16, 202695. January 2026 Community News: Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation and the Hawaiʻi Workers Center
Community news for January 2026! After headlines, we feature interviews with updates from two long-time grantee partners:
ʻĀinaaloha Ioane, the executive director of the Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation, shares the latest milestones in the efforts of the King's Landing community to secure long-term leases on the homestead lands they have lived on for decades.
Kami Yamamoto and Lauren Taijeron from the Hawaiʻi Workers Center share updates on their work organizing low-wage, non-union workers on Oʻahu, including the reinvigoration of the COFA Workers Association of Honolulu and their ongoing campaign against wage theft.
To learn more, listen to our previous episodes:
5. Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation: Growing Up in King‘s Landing
45. Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation: Community, Ceremony, and Collective Abundance
51. Hawaiʻi Workers Center: Empowering Workers to Organize
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37min
December 19, 2025 94. Kūpaʻa Kuilima: Protecting ʻĀina in Kahuku, Oʻahu
A conversation about protecting ʻāina with Jessica Dos Santos and Lillie Makaila from Kūpaʻa Kuilima.
Kūpaʻa Kuilima is dedicated to advocating for responsible and pono development on O’ahu’s North Shore from Waialeʻe to Keana, elevating and protecting the ‘āina by holding it sacred, staying rooted in place, and reviving ancestral traditions.
Linktree: linktr.ee/kupaakuilima
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41min
December 12, 2025 Food Sovereignty through Hawaiian Engineering: A Story of Two Kahaluʻu (2025)
How are organizations in Hawaiʻi addressing the need for sustainable and abundant food systems to feed our island communities?
In this issue area episode from the spring, we hear from three community partners working toward the restoration of Hawaiian food systems, in particular through the foundational practice of uhau humu pōhaku (Hawaiian drystack masonry).
First, we hear from Keʻalohi Wang at Hui Hoʻoniho, an organization founded in 1996 to perpetuate the intergenerational transmission of uhau humu pōhaku.
From there, we learn about two ʻāina-based organizations working to restore significant traditional agricultural systems, both with the name Kahaluʻu:
At Kahaluʻu Kūāhewa in Kahaluʻu, Kona, Hawaiʻi, we hear from Jesse and Kim Kahoʻonei about their work restoring a 354-acre parcel of the traditional Kona field system.
From Kaiāulu ʻo Kahaluʻu in Kahaluʻu, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu, Hiʻiaka Jardine and Philip Kapu share about their efforts to restore the Kahaluʻu Loʻi--the largest intact terraced loʻi system on Oʻahu.
To learn more about these hui, listen to our full episodes with them:
29. Kaiāulu ‘o Kahalu‘u: Hawaiian Engineering and ‘Āina Restoration in Kahalu‘u
33. Kahaluʻu Kūāhewa (Huliauapaʻa): Food Sovereignty and ʻĀina Education in Kona
62. Kahaluʻu Kūāhewa: Reconnecting Kānaka to ʻĀina in Kona
63. Kaiāulu ʻo Kahaluʻu: Restoring the Kahaluʻu Loʻi
73. Hui Hoʻoniho: Building a Foundation through Uhau Humu Pōhaku
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43min

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