keahiahi@hawaii.edu

Moku ka pawa o ke ao i ka uka lā o Mānoa. Welina me ke aloha kākou! My name is Keahiahi, and I have been a hula practitioner for more than thirty years, learning from my kumu, Maelia Loebenstein Carter, as a member of Ka Pā Hula o Kauanoe o Waʻahila. I am also an Assistant Professor in the Library and Information Science Program at UH Mānoa, where I am dedicated to improving Hawaiʻi’s information scapes through community-centered approaches that honor the resilience of Native Hawaiian genealogical traditions. With a focus on Hawaiian librarianship, I am currently contributing to projects that aim to co-create a Hawaiian knowledge organization system, publish a Hawaiian-English legal dictionary, and understand the information practices of hula practitioners.

mkcrabbe@hawaii.edu

Kahuanaʻauao is a newly conferred BA Hawaiian Language and Ancient Civilizations major from UH Mānoa. He will be continuing at Mānoa this fall with a dual MA in Hawaiian Language and Library & Information Sciences. As a kupa to Kapaʻakea, a pana ʻāina adjacent to Mānoa, Kahua is also a haumāna under Hālau Hula Ka Lehua Tuahine. In his free time, Kahua likes to read, play pā leo Hawaiʻi, and body surf. Through this project, Kahua hopes to contribute to a reinforced understanding of hula practitioners and the ʻike and manaʻo that is vital to continuing these traditions that are irreplaceable to Hawaiʻi.

Kenzie Kahale-Alexander

kjkahale@hawaii.edu

I am a dual masters student in Library Science and Hawaiian Studies. I earned my B.A. in Hawaiian Studies and double minors in Hawaiian and Linguistics from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I am from the diaspora, born and raised in the Puget Sound area in Washington. I moved to Hawaiʻi in 2022 and have worked in multiple archives and libraries while I studied and reconnected with my culture. As someone from the diaspora I struggled with access to resources to connect to my culture which has help shaped my kuleana. It is my goal to create accessibility resources for all of the lāhui in Hawaiʻi and the ʻĀina E.

ʻAnoʻai ke aloha iā ʻoukou! My name is Kale Kanaeholo and I am a haumana laeʻula (doctoral candidate) in the History Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I was born and raised in Waipiʻo, Oʻahu Although I consider myself primarily a Kanaka ʻŌiwi, my roots extend to different wahi of Hawaiʻi, Okinawa, and China. My dissertation focuses on Hawaiian music during the Second Hawaiian Renaissance and how the musical genre impacted the movement. Outside of academia, I enjoy both film and digital photography, traveling, and being a micro-foodie influencer with my friends.

D. Kauwila Mahi

dmahi@hawaii.edu

D. Kauwila Mahi is an ʻŌiwi Hawaiʻi cultural organizer, guerilla educator, public archivist, and internationally recognized artist who has exhibited and been awarded in ʻāina such as Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island (both Canada and the United States). Kauwilaʻs arts disciplines cultural arts disciplines are part of resistance genealogies and change makers who are committed to documenting and resisting erasure while advocating for a future rooted in ʻike Hawaiʻi through kanikau, 3D Design, video games, photography, and rap music.