In this post, I share brief reflections on recent community outreach with HONUA Scholars.

In this post, I share four points of reflection on the 2025 spring retreat for the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships.

In this post, I share reflections and key takeaways from Day 4 of NYU’s 2025 First Faculty-Look Program.

In this post, I share reflections and key takeaways from Day 3 of NYU’s 2025 First Faculty-Look Program.

In this post, I share reflections and takeaways from the second day of NYU’s 2025 Faculty First-Look Program.

In this post, I share a few key takeaways and reflections from the first day of NYU’s 2025 Faculty First-Look Program.

Reflections on the third annual HONUA Scholars Laulima Symposium and Proposal Competition

A brief, post-election reflection and a reminder of what’s at stake

In this post, I share a brief moʻolelo of my upcoming article on a qualitative study of kūʻē (resistance) among Native Hawaiian students from 2019–2024.

This past week was jam-packed with events — a symposium, a public talk, a night market, a work day — and opportunities to reconnect with old friends and build pilina with new ones.

On Wednesday, September 4, I atttended a free talk sponsored by the University of Hawaiʻi – Mānoa Richardson School of Law and UH Mānoa's Better Tomorrow Speaker Series. The talk featured an address by Chamorro human rights lawyer and activist Julian Aguon and a discussion between Aguon and UH Mānoa School of Law Dean Camille Nelson.

Even though I love math, I've never considered myself a quantitative data scholar. Maybe it's the majoritarian belief that statistical data is neutral or the dominant practice of leaving Indigenous Peoples out of large-scale data projects, but quantitative data analysis never spoke to me in the way that qualitative analysis has.

After talking with friends and colleagues about publishing peer-review articles, I was inspired to dedicate a few blog posts toward deconstructing the publication process.

In this post, I reflect on Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2009 TEDGlobal talk "the danger of a single story," which warns audiences of the violent consequences of failing to consult multiple stories and perspectives on diverse cultures and circumstances.

A review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me (2015)

In this post, I reflect on the highs and lows of June 2024 and share a few personal ruminations on "productivity" during the summer months.

This past week, I spent some much-needed time engaged in ʻāina, cultivating new friendships, and nurturing old ones. Last Saturday, I went out to a loʻi and got to talk story with college students and recent graduates about their relationship with ʻāina, and I'm always amazed and inspired by the depth of ʻike our youth have when it comes to Aloha ʻĀina work.

This month has been such an emotional rollercoaster — lots of highs, a ton of lows. Through it all, my family and friends have really shown up to kūkākūkā and kōkua.

This week, I was reminded about the significance of intersectionality, a framework, theory, pedagogy, analytic tool, lens, and lifestyle that recognizes the interlocking nature of social identities and their subsequent impact on an individual's experiences with systems of oppression.

During a 1-1 meeting for work yesterday, a colleague and I discussed previous comments I made on May 3 after student protesters at UCLA and Dartmouth were attacked by zionists and brutalized by campus and local police forces.