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CONTRIBUTORS Jeffrey Tangonan Acido is a 1.5-generation Ilokano-Filipino immigrant to Hawai‘i. He is completing his PhD in Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. His research interests are in intersections of Critical Pedagogy, Popular Education, Liberation /Postcolonial Theology, and Ethnic Studies. In the near future he hopes to build a Center for Popular Education and Ancestral Wisdom in Hawai‘i. U‘ilani Arasato has been writing poetry for about four to five years. She is a new mother and a growing student. She’s continuing her education in order to be a Senior English teacher for Wai‘anae High School. Kamanamaikalani Beamer is an Assistant Professor in the Hui ‘Äina Momona program, split between the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa School of Hawaiian Knowledge and School of Law. In the Richardson School of Law he is based with the Ka Huli Ao, Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. He received a bachelor ’s degree in both Philosophy and Hawaiian Studies in 2002, and a PhD in Cultural Geography in 2008. He is a former ‘öiwi Ake Akamai doctoral fellow as well as a Mellon-Hawai‘i post-doctoral Fellow, and a codirector of the First Nations’ Futures Fellowship Program. His research publications and interests focus on indigenous agency, Native Hawaiian land tenure, and the land and resource law of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He teaches courses on resource management, land tenure, and the Hawaiian Kingdom. He is a farmer, father, and husband. Makena Coffman is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. She teaches graduate courses in environmental planning related to climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Asia/Pacific region, energy and environmental policy, and planning methods. She specializes in economic -environment modeling, holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University , and a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. She is a Research Fellow with the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization. Donovan Kühiö Colleps was born and raised in ‘Ewa Beach, O‘ahu. He is a PhD student in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, and writes poetry and fiction. Sean Connelly is an interdisciplinary designer, integrating architecture, urban design , conceptual art, and the watershed. He is a graduate of Castle High School, and received his degrees in architecture and urban design at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. He is currently studying architecture and urbanism at Harvard University. 302 THE VALUE OF HAWAI‘I 2 Elise Leimomi Dela Cruz-Talbert has been a researcher and community advocate on diverse issues related to health and social justice. She firmly believes that to promote health for all people in all places, we must be able to identify health disparities, build community capacity for health promotion, and push for data-driven policies. Raised in Käne‘ohe, O‘ahu, Elise went on to receive her BS in Biology, Genetics and Development from Cornell University, and her Masters in Public Health from the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, where she is currently a doctoral student in Epidemiology . Her doctoral research involves measuring the relationship between neighborhood food environments and health outcomes. Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘öpua teaches at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa as an Associate Professor of Political Science specializing in Hawaiian and Indigenous politics. Raised in Kalihi and He‘eia on O‘ahu, her academic work is one part of a lifetime commitment to aloha ‘äina—politically-engaged, loving care for Hawai‘i. Her previous research projects have involved documenting Hawai‘i-based transformative social action, including her first book, The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (U of Minnesota P, 2013), and the edited collection , Ea: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty (Duke UP, 2014), coedited with Ikaika Hussey and Kahunawai Wright and in partnership with documentary photographer Ed Greevy. Consuelo Agarpao Gouveia is a Kumu and the Elementary Curriculum Specialist for Hälau Kü Mäna New Century Public. She received a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction for K-12 with an emphasis in Literacy from Grand Canyon University, and will pursue a Doctorate Degree in Administration or Special Education . Consuelo earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. She has taught grades Pre-K to twelfth, and has even taught at UNLV’s...

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