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EXPERIENCE

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honolulu, HI Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law William S. Richardson School of Law

Assistant Professor of Law, Hui ʻĀina Momona, June 2012-Present Courses Taught/Teaching:

LAW 520N - Native Hawaiian Land Issues, LAW 590I - Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, LWEV 527C - Native Hawaiian Burials and Historic Sites Preservation, LAW 503 - Historic Preservation Law, LAW 504 - Legal Practice I / Lawyering Fundamentals I

HWST 458 - Natural Resource Issues and Ethics in Hawaiʻi, HWST 396 - Native Hawaiian Rights and Practices

New Course Development:

HWST 652 – Kānāwai Lawaiʻa: Hawaiʻis Ocean and Fisheries Laws (offered for first time in Fall 2018)

University of Hawaiʻi Maui College - Molokai Kaunakakai, HI Molokai Rural Development Project Director, February 2003 – May 2012

Molokaʻi Community Service Council Kaunakakai, HI Fund Developer, Solid Waste Program Coordinator, February 2002 – February 2003 Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation Honolulu, HI Staff Attorney, October 2000 – February 2002

Ke Kuaʻāina Hanauna Hou Kaunakakai, HI Program & Fund Development Coordinator, Seaweed Extension Agent, September 1997 – October 2000

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Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission Honolulu, HI

University of Hawaiʻi Zoology Department Marine Behavioral Ecologist, 1996-1997 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX Honolulu, HI Intern, June 1996 – August 1996

University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Honolulu, HI Environmental Analyst, August 1995 – September 1995, July 1996 Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) Honolulu, HI Law Clerk (pro bono), June 1995 – August 1995 Governor Waihee’s Molokai Subsistence Task Force Kaunakakai, HI Coordinator of the Molokai Subsistence Study, June 1993 – August 1993

Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana Kaunakakai, HI Marine Researcher, June 1993 – August 1993

Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi Kaneohe, HI Research Assistant, June 1993 – August 1992 Whitworth University Spokane, WA Cultural Diversity Advocate, September 1991 – August 1992

EDUCATION

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honolulu, HI William S. Richardson School of Law J.D., Environmental Law Certificate, 1997 Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center Anacortes, WA Minorities in Marine Sciences Undergraduate Program (MIMSUP) Spring, 1993 Whitworth College Spokane, WA B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Biology, 1993

PUBLICATIONS

Malia Akutagawa, An Island Negotiating a Pathway for Responsible Tourism, in DETOURS: A DECOLONIAL

GUIDEBOOK TO HAWAIʻI (Hokulani Aikau, Vernadette Gonzalez, eds.) (expected publication 2019).

The Moku System: Managing Biocultural Resources for Abundance within Social-Ecological Regions in Hawaiʻi. Kawika B. Winter, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Alan M. Friedlander, Mike H. Kido, A. Nāmaka Whitehead, Malia K. H. Akutagawa, Natalie Kurashima, Matthew Paul Lucas, and Ben Nyberg – Sustainability 2018, 10, 3554, doi:10.3390/su10103554.

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Malia Akutagawa, Nā Kai Poʻoloʻoloʻu O Molokaʻi, in NOURISH: THE REVITALIZATION OF FOODWAYS IN

HAWAIʻI (Clare Gupta and Gillian Ewing, eds.) (2019).

Malia Akutagawa, Shaelene Kamakaʻala, Harmonee Williams, & the Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, Appendix 4:

Traditional & Customary Practices Report for Manaʻe, Molokaʻi, in Final Environmental Assessment for Pākuʻi Watershed Project (2017).

Malia Akutagawa, Appendix G: Hawaiʻi’s Traditional and Customary Rights Impact Analysis on Potential Systems to Regulate Non-Commercial Marine Fishing, in Feasibility of a Non-Commercial Fishing Registry, Permit, or License System in Hawaiʻi – Study Group Final Report (2016).

Malia Akutagawa, Elizabeth Cole, Tressa P. Diaz, Tanaya Dutta Gupta, Clare Gupta, Angela Faʻanunu, Shaelene

Kamakaʻala, Maile Taualiʻi, Health Impact Assessment of the proposed Moʻomomi Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area

– Island of Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi (2016). Harmonee Williams, Emillia Noordhoek, Malia Akutagawa, Sustʻāinable Molokai Energy Assessment (2014).

Natasha Baldauf & Malia Akutagawa, HOʻI HOU I KA IWIKUAMOʻO: A LEGAL PRIMER FOR THE PROTECTION

OF IWI KŪPUNA IN HAWAIʻI NEI (2013). Malia Akutagawa, Lahela Han, Emillia Noordhoek, Harmonee Williams, Sustʻāinable Molokai Agriculture Needs Assessment (2012). Cultivation of Gracilaria parvispora (Rhodophyta) in shrimp-farm effluent ditches and floating cages in Hawaii: a two-phase polyculture system. Stephen G. Nelson, Edward P. Glenn, Jeff Conn, David Moore, Ted Walsh, and Malia Akutagawa – Aquaculture – IF1:678 – 193(3) - 2001/02/01.

Correlation between Gracilaria parvispora (Rhodophyta) biomass production and water quality factors on a tropical reef in Hawaii. Edward P. Glenn, David Moore, Malia Akutagawa, Anna Himler, Ted Walsh and Stephen G. Nelson – Aquaculture – 178(3) – 1999/08/01. Jon Matsuoka, Davianna McGregor, Luciano Minerbi, and Malia Akutagawa, “Governor’s Molokai Subsistence Task Force Report,” Molokai Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, 1993.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Chip Fletcher, et al., Key Message: Coastal Effects, Hawaii and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands in 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment (expected publication 2018). (Serving as a technical contributor). Malia Nobrega-Olivera, et al., Key Message: Indigenous Communities, Hawaii and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands in 4th National Climate Assessment (expected publication 2018). (Serving as a technical contributor).

PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, PROJECT COLLABORATIONS

Strengthening Traditional Governance with the ʻAha Moku: A Workshop to Build Community Capacity and Local Leadership

to Malama ʻĀina, LAW 590 I – Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, Kanu o ka ʻĀina Learning ʻOhana , Waimea,

Hawaiʻi (April 6, 2019)

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Legal Training on Hawaiʻi Island Burial Council Roles & Responsibilities, LAW 590 I – Native Hawaiian Rights

Clinic, State of Hawaiʻi Division of Forestry and Wildlife Conference Room, Hilo, Hawaiʻi (April 5, 2019)

Strengthening Traditional Governance with the ʻAha Moku: A Workshop to Build Community Capacity and Local Leadership

to Malama ʻĀina, LAW 590 I – Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Hawaiʻi (April 5,

2019)

Women in Law Talk Story: Kuleana Beyond a Law Degree, Panelist, King Kamehameha V. Judiciary History Center,

Aliʻiolani Hale, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 26, 2019).

Ke Aʻo Mau: Native Hawaiian Health, Social Justice, and the Law, Guest Lecturer, Myron B. Thompson School of

Social Work, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 12, 2019)

Infusing Native Hawaiian Rights and Public Trust Protections into Community Planning, Guest Lecturer, PLAN 640 –

Land Use Policy and Programs, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 21, 2019)

Kiaʻi Kanaloa Network Partnership with NOAA, University of Hawaii, and DLNR for Native Hawaiian Cultural and

Religious Practitioner Response to Injured, Stranded, and Deceased Marine Species, Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic

Presentation, Moku o Koolaupoko community meeting, Kahaluʻu Elementary School Cafeteria, Kahaluʻu,

Hawaiʻi (February 15, 2019)

Ke Aʻo Mau: Native Hawaiian Health, Social Justice, and the Law, Guest Lecturer, Myron B. Thompson School of

Social Work, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 12, 2019)

The Kiaʻi Kanaloa Network and Extending Legal Protections to Care for the Remains of Cetaceans and Other Kinolau of Kanaloa,

Presented to the Molokaʻi Aloha ʻĀina Fellows, University of Hawaiʻi Maui College – Molokaʻi Education

Center, Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi (December 13, 2018)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for ʻAha Moku o Maui, Maui, Hawaiʻi (December 8, 2018)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for State and County Boards and Commissions, Maui,

Hawaiʻi (December 7, 2018)

Restoring Indigenous Mālama ʻĀina Rights and Practices through the ʻAha Kiole o Molokaʻi, Pikookoo 2018 Conference,

Imin Conference Center, East-West Center, University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 6, 2018)

Kiaʻi Kanaloa Convening II, Hanapēpē, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi (July 13, 2018)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for State and County Boards and Commissions, University

of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (May 18, 2018)

Molokaʻi Youth Summit: E Hui Pū Kākou - Our Island, Our People, Our Vision, Our Kuleana, Kūlana ʻŌiwi Hālau,

Kalamaʻula, Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi (April 28, 2018)

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Puwaluʻiki – Kauaʻi Aha Moku Island Council, Law Training, Hanapēpē, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi (April 6-9, 2018)

Native Hawaiian Kanaloa Traditions and Environmental Law, Guest Lecturer, LWEV 592 Domestic Ocean and

Coastal Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (April

4, 2018)

Working with Kūpuna and Other Traditional Ecological Knowledge Holders in Kahana, Oʻahu to Develop an Indigenous,

Community-Based Fisheries Manageent Plan and Managing Arising Conflicts with Hoʻoponopono, Guest Lecturer, Hawaiʻi

Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 21, 2018)

Indigenous Conflict Resoution: Practice and Integration, Aliʻiolani Hale – Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Courtroom, State of

Hawaii Judiciary, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 12, 2018)

Ke Aʻo Mau: Native Hawaiian Health, Social Justice, and the Law, Guest Lecturer, Myron B. Thompson School of

Social Work, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 6, 2018)

Infusing Native Hawaiian Rights and Public Trust Protections into Community Planning, Guest Lecturer, PLAN 640 –

Land Use Policy and Programs, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 22, 2018)

Determining Molokaʻi Community’s Energy Future with Tentou, An International Alliance of Energy Leaders, Sponsored by

Sustʻāinable Molokaʻi, Kūlana ʻŌiwi Hālau, Kalamaʻula, Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi (February 19, 2018)

Hawaiʻi 78: Where We Went and Where We Go From Here, Talk #1: ʻĀina, Maoli Thursday, Ka Huli Ao Center for

Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (February 1, 2018)

Consultation Processes with Native Hawaiian Communities, Strategy and Skills Workshop for Reassessing Public

Participation: Taking Stock, Devising Solutions, Building Toolkits, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

(December 2, 2017)

Looking to the Future of ʻAha Moku, Puwalu Umi, Ola Honua I Ke Kūpaʻa Kānaka – Puwalu 10, The Earth

Flourishes with Bounty when Kānaka Stand Together in Support, Pagoda Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November

17, 2017)

The ʻAha Moku & Traditional Hawaiian Methodologies & Knowledge when Addressing Cultural & Natural Resource

Management, Guest Lecturer, HWST 650 Hawaiian Geography & Resource Management, Kamakakūokalani

Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 16, 2017)

Kiaʻi Kanaloa Convening I, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaiʻi (November 10-11, 2017)

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ʻĀina Governance through the ʻAha Moku System, Panelist on Moʻo ʻAupuni Panel at the Moʻo – Connections and

Successions: A Hawaiian Librarianship Symposium, Kamehameha Schools – Midkiff Learning Center,

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 20, 2017)

Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights and Responsibilities for Ocean Resources and the State’s Regulatory Authority,

Management, and Constitutional Obligations towards Native Hawaiians and the Public Trust, training workshop for the

State of Hawaiʻi (October 13, 2017)

Hui ʻĀina Momona Leadership Briefing, gathering of UH Mānoa Deans for a briefing of the Sustainability and Hui

ʻĀina Momona Cluster Initiatives, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (August 30, 2017)

Building a Movement for Sustainable Futures: Intergenerational Talk Story Circle on Who’s ʻOno for Pono? - Pathways to Being

an Environmental Advocate, Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, Hawaiʻi Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (July

19, 2017)

Maintaining the Cultural Link in the Enforement Chain: Legal Issues Relevant to Traditional and Customary Fishing and Other

Subsistence Rights, 2nd Annual Hawaii Environmental Court Judicial Training (2017), Aliʻiolani Hale State of

Hawaii Judiciary, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (June 23, 2017)

Native Hawaiian Kanaloa Traditions and the Intersetion between Environmental and Native Hawaiian Law, Earthjustice U.S.

Regional and International Offices for Asian Pacific Heritage Month, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (May 15, 2017)

State Laws Respecting Hawaiian Rights and Public Trust Responsibilities in the Fisheries and the CBSFA Law, Department

of Land and Natural Resources Public Scoping Meeting to Discus Proposal to Establish a Community-Based

Subsistence Fishing Area (CBSFA) along the North Coast of Molokaʻi (Moomomi), Maui Waena Intermediate

School, Kahului, Hawaiʻi (April 5, 2017)

Traditional Marine Tenure System and Modern Laws Managing the Ocean and Nearshore Fisheries in Hawaiʻi, Pālamanui

Hawaiʻi Community College, Kailua-Kona, Hawaiʻi (April 1, 2017)

State Laws Respecting Hawaiian Rights and Public Trust Responsibilities in the Fisheries and the CBSFA Law, Department

of Land and Natural Resources Public Scoping Meeting to Discus Proposal to Establish a Community-Based

Subsistence Fishing Area (CBSFA) along the North Coast of Molokaʻi (Moomomi), Kawananakoa Middle

School, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 2, 2017)

Indigenous Communities, Sectoral Workshop in Support of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment – Hawaii and

Pacific Island Regions, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 13, 2017)

Coastal Systems (Coastal Effects), Sectoral Workshop in Support of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment –

Hawaii and Pacific Island Regions, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 6, 2017)

Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights in State Marine Waters and Fisheries, Guest Lecturer, LAW 590E

Environmental Law Clinic, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (February 1, 2017)

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Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for State and County Boards and Commissions, University of Hawaiʻi

William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (January 11, 2017)

Nā Pono Hawaiʻi: Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights and Responsibilities for Ocean Resources, Second

Hawaiʻi Marine Resources Enforcement Conference, Hawaiʻi State Capitol, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (December 17,

2016)

The ʻAha Moku Rules of Practice and Procedure, Puwalu ʻEiwa, Ka Holomua Ana O Ka ʻAha Moku – Puwalu 9,

Moving the ʻAha Moku Forward, Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 28, 2016)

The ʻAha Moku and Traditional Hawaiian Methodologies and Knowledge when Addressing Cultural and Natural Resource

Management, Kauaʻi Community College, Lihue, Hawaiʻi (November 21, 2016)

Continuing Cultural Practices within the Landscape of Existing Laws, National Park Service Native Hawaiian Law Clinic,

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 4, 2016)

Fisheries Law in Hawaiʻi, Guest Lecturer, LAW 590E Environmental Law Clinic, William S. Richardson School

of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 8, 2016)

Hui ʻĀina Momona, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies Mālama ʻĀina Planning, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

(August 18, 2017)

Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for State and County Boards and Commissions, University of Hawaiʻi

William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (July 16, 2016)

Indigenous, Community-Based Fisheries and Fishpond Management in Hawaiʻi, Guest Lecturer, LWEV 592 Domestic

Ocean and Coastal Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (March 31, 2016)

Aloha ʻĀina, Kanawai, a me ke Ola – Connecting Relationships toʻĀina as Reflected in Hawaiian Customary Laws to Kānaka

Health and Well-Being, Guest Lecturer, PH 305 Native Hawaiian Health Determinants, Public Health Studies –

Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 17, 2016)

Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training for State and County Boards and Commissions, University of Hawaiʻi

William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (January 16, 2016)

Pathways Forward: A Closing Roundtable, Panelist, University of Hawaii Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict

Resolution Conference – Science, Politics, and Governance – Constructing Better Dialogues and Producing

Better Results, East-West Center, Keoni Auditorium, Imin International Conference Center, University of

Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 12, 2015)

Aloha ʻĀina and the Kanawai, Guest Lecturer, HWST 396 Native Hawaiian Rights & Practices, Kamakakūokalani

Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 2, 2015)

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E Mālama I Nā Iwi Kūpuna - Take Care of the Bones of the Ancestors, Guest Lecturer, LAW 519 Real Property II,

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 24, 2015)

Wicked Water Woes: Using Expertise to Develop Practical Solutions, Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke (Learn By Doing) To Build

Expertise in a Borderless World, Wednesday Evening Seminar, East-West Center, Keoni Auditorium, Imin

International Conference Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 16, 2015)

Hawaiʻi’s First Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area in Hāʻena: Prospects for Native Hawaiian Self-Determination Over

Ocean Resources, Maoli Thursday, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, University of Hawaiʻi

William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 3, 2015)

Eia Mānoa Summer Bridge ʻŌiwi Scholars Roundtable, Hālau o Haumea, University of Hawaiʻi Kamakakūokalani

Center for Hawaiian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (August 3, 2015)

Iwi Kūpuna, Native Hawaiian Law Training, University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law,

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (August 1, 2015)

Interweaving Traditional and Customary Hawaiian Rights, Hawaiʻi Environmental Court Symposium: Our New Island

Court in a Global Context, University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (June

26, 2015)

Using NEPA To Address Native Hawaiian Concerns, Hawaiʻi NEPA Workshop: How NEPA Can Help You

Achieve the Results You Want, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Haleʻōlelo Performing Arts Building, Hilo, Hawaiʻi

(June 22, 2015)

Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights, Hawaiʻi Environmental Court Judicial Training Workshop,

Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, Aliʻiolani Hale, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (May 22, 2015)

Restoring Kūpuna Wisdom in ʻĀina Governance, Keynote Address, PIELC 2015 – Changing Currents, 33rd Annual

Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon (March

8, 2015)

Konohiki Fisheries – Past & Present, Maui Nui Makai Network Semi-Annual Meeting, Hanā, Mauʻi, Hawaiʻi

(February 28, 2015)

The ʻAha Kiole - The Peopleʻs Council, Restoring Kūpuna Wisdom in ʻĀina Governance, Guest Lecturer, NREM 491 -

Hoʻokahua: Ahupuaʻa Based Leadership Education (ABLE), Waipā, Hawaiʻi (December 8, 2014)

Return of the Konohiki: Exercising Kuleana (Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities) in Natural Resource Management, Faculty

Professional Development, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (December 4, 2014)

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Lāʻau Lapaʻau: Healing with Hawaiian Traditional Medicine, Wellness Fair, William S. Richardson School of Law,

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (December 2, 2014)

E Mālama Manaʻe: An Emerging Model for Collaborative Governance with the ʻAha Kiole o Molokai - Manaʻe Moku for a

Watershed Management Project from Mauka to Makai, East-West Center, Keoni Auditorium, Imin International

Conference Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 29, 2014)

E Mālama Manaʻe: An Emerging Model for Collaborative Governance with the ʻAha Kiole o Molokai - Manaʻe Moku for a

Watershed Management Project from Mauka to Makai, Imi ʻIke, Natural Resources and Environmental Management

(NREM) Research Seminar Series, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 29, 2014)

E Mālama I Nā Iwi Kūpuna - Take Care of the Bones of the Ancestors, Guest Lecturer, LAW 519 Real Property II,

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 13, 2014)

Hoʻoponopono - Hawaiian Conflict Resolution Session with the State Department of Land & Natural Resources, Division of

Conservation and Resource Enforcement (DLNR-DOCARE) and the Community of Kahana, Oʻahu, Haku Hoʻopono

(Traditional Conflict Resolution Facilitator), Kahana, Hawaiʻi (October 12, 2014)

Kūkākūkā: Manaʻe Watershed Panel, Facilitator, Kulana ʻŌiwi, Kalamaʻula, Hawaiʻi (October 4, 2014)

Integrating Community & Ahupuaʻa Managemenet to the Manaʻe Watershed Project, ʻAha Kiole o Molokai - Manaʻe

Moku, Kilohana Community Center, Ualapuʻe, Hawaiʻi (August 5, 2014)

Nā Pono Hawaiʻi: Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights and Responsibilities for Ocean Resources, Hawaiʻi

Marine Resources Enforcement Conference, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at

Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (July 19, 2014)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Hawaiʻi Boards, Commissions, and Councils Training, William S. Richardson School of

Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (July 12, 2014)

Return of the Konohiki: Exercising Kuleana (Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities) in Natural Resource Management, Hui ̒ Āina

Momona: Walking with the Ancestors, Steps Toward Abundance, Panelist, Native American and Indigenous Studies

Association (NAISA), University of Texas, Austin, Texas (May 29, 2014)

Renewable Energy and Implications for Land, Siting, and Aesthetics, Panelist, Stephen & Marylyn Pauley Seminar in

Sustainability, Ascent: Energy and Water Sustainability with Former Vice President Al Gore, University of

Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (April 15, 2014)

Restoring Molokai ʻĀina Momona, Kanu Me Ka Laulima Kākou, The 2nd Annual Conference on Community

Development and Financing, Kaʻiwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools, Kāpalama

Campus, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 24, 2014)

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Sustʻāinable Molokai: An Island Charting the Course to an Energy Secure Future, Keynote Speaker, Kanu Me Ka Laulima

Kākou, The 2nd Annual Conference on Community Development and Financing, Kaʻiwakīloumoku Hawaiian

Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools, Kāpalama Campus, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 24, 2014)

Lāʻau Lapaʻau: Healing with Hawaiian Traditional Medicine, Hawaiʻi Food Corps Workshop, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi

(March 16, 2014)

Restoring ʻĀina Momona: Molokai Agriculture Needs Assessment, Loli Aniau Makaʻala Aniau (LAMA) - Climate

Change, Climate Alert, Kilo Honua (Earth Watchers) Workshop, Kailua, Hawaiʻi (March 13, 2014)

Traditional Marine Resource Management: An Open Forum, Panelist, Hawaiian Islands Science Cafe, American Society

of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), Hawaiʻi Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 27, 2014)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Hawaiʻi Boards, Commissions, and Councils Training, William S. Richardson School of

Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (January 11, 2014)

Working with Kūpuna and Other Traditional Ecological Knowledge Holders to Develop an Indigenous, Community-Based Fisheries

Management Plan in Kahana, Oʻahu – Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic Project, Guest Lecturer, Community Based

Participatory Research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 26, 2013)

Hoʻi Hou I Ka Iwikuamoʻo: A Legal Primer for the Protection of Iwi Kūpuna in Hawaiʻi Nei, Windward Community

College, Kaneohe, Hawaiʻi (November 14, 2013)

Hoʻohana Aku, a Hoʻōla Aku: A Legal Primer for Traditional and Customary Rights in Hawaiʻi, Aha Kiole o Molokai,

Moku o Manaʻe, Molokai, Hawaiʻi (November 11, 2013)

Na wai e hoʻōla i nā iwi? Who will save the bones?, 2013 Anthropology Department Colloquium Series, University of

Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (November 7, 2013)

Pre-Contact Hawaiian Land Tenure and Rights to Present Day, Nanakuli, Hawaiʻi (October 28, 2013)

Return of the Konohiki: Kuleana (Rights and Responsibilities) In Practice, Looking Back to Move Forward, TEDx Mānoa,

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 18, 2013) Roundtable Discussion on the Environment and Community: Institutional Obligations – Land, Water, Seeds and the Roots of the

Agricultural Crisis in India, Hawaiʻi, and Beyond, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (October 2, 2013) Return of the Konohiki and Kuleana (Rights and Responsibilities), Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Kalaupapa, Molokai,

Hawaiʻi (September 21, 2013)

Developing a Traditional, Community-Based Strategy for Fisheries Management in Kahana, Oʻahu – Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic Project, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement Conference, Next Generation Hawaiian Leaders,

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 3, 2013)

ʻŌiwi Dialogues, Panel Discussion, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (July 30, 2013)

Hoʻi Hou I Ka Iwikuamoʻo: A Legal Primer for the Protection of Iwi Kupuna in Hawaiʻi Nei, Lanaʻi, Hawaiʻi (July 20, 2013)

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E ʻOnipaa i Ke Kulāiwi: A Legal Primer for Quiet Title and Partition Law in Hawaiʻi, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (April 27, 2013) Careers in Native Hawaiian Law, Career Lecture Brown Bag Series, Native Hawaiian Student Services, University

of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (April 12, 2013) Representing Kānaka Maoli Sense of Place, Values, Culture, and Community in Film, Guest Lecturer, Critical Studies in

American Documentary, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (March 5, 2013)

Protecting Iwi Kūpuna, Hawaiʻi Boards, Commissions, and Councils Training, William S. Richardson School of Law,

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (January 12, 2013)

Aloha ʻĀina, Sustainability, and the Law, Native Hawaiian Speaker Series, Hawaiʻi Pacific University, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (September 19, 2012) Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on the “Impacts of Environmental Change on Treaty Rights, Traditional Lifestyles, and Tribal Homelands,” United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. (July 19, 2012)

Water Law & Jurisprudence in Hawaiʻi – State & County Obligations to Kānaka Maoli, Molokai Planning Commission,

Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (June 8, 2011)

Molokai Hawaiian Homesteader Water Rights & Strategies for Legal Intervention, Ahupuaʻa o Molokai – Hui of Hawaiian

Homestead Associations, Hoʻolehua, Hawaiʻi (February 16, 2011) Traditional & Customary Hawaiian Rights Law - State & County Agency Obligations to Kānaka Maoli, Molokai Planning

Commission, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (July 28, 2010) Hawaiian Cultural & Burial Sites Protection Law & Jurisprudence - State & County Agency Obligations to Kānaka Maoli,

Molokai Planning Commission, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (July 14, 2010)

Molokai Hawaiian Homesteader Water Rights & Strategies for Legal Intervention, Kalamaʻula Mauka and Kapaʻakea

Hawaiian Homestead Associations, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (April 14, 2010) Testimony before the Maui County Council on Preserving Mapulehu, East Molokai as a Cultural Landscape for the Protection of

Iwi Kūpuna, Maui, Hawaiʻi (September 1, 2009)

Environmental and Cultural Impacts of Molokai Ranch’s Proposed Laʻau Point Development, Office of State Planning,

Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (May 29, 2007) Legal Bases for Claims to Hawaiian Sovereignty and Independence, Guest Lecturer, Hawaiian Studies, University of

Hawaiʻi Maui College – Molokai (December 2006)

Testimony before the State of Hawaiʻi Land Use Commission Re: Molokai Ranch EIS Preparation & LUC Accepting Authority

Determinations on the Laʻau Point Development Proposal, Hoʻolehua, Hawaiʻi (May 4, 2006)

Water Law, Traditional & Customary Rights in Hawaiʻi, Guest Lecturer, Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi Maui College – Molokai (March 2005)

Molokai Community Solid Waste Management Plan, Maui County Council, Kaunakakai, Hawaiʻi (November 14, 2003) Community Participation in Land Use & Planning, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement Conference, Honolulu,

Hawaiʻi (September 2002)

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Mohala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua – Unfolded by the waters are the faces of the flowers: The Legacy of Queen Liliʻuokalani,

keynote address, Queen Liliuokalani Commemoration, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (September 2, 2002)

History of Water Law in Hawaiʻi, Water Resources Research Center Fall Seminar Series, University of Hawaiʻi at

Mānoa Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (2001)

Asserting Cultural Rights Panel, Ola Nā Iwi – Mele ʻAi Pōhaku – Bones of Life – Song in Stone: Indigenous

People’s Forum on Cultural Rights, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (May 5, 2001) Cultural Impact Statements: One Method of Implementing PASH, Life With PASH – Native Hawaiian Bar Association,

Hawaiʻi State Bar Association Convention, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (December 9, 1997)

Testimony before the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in Opposition to Senate Bill No. 8 Relating to Land Use, reproduced in the E

Alu Like Mai i Ka Pono Workbook, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (February 4, 1997)

GRANTS AWARDED AND OTHER FUNDING SECURED

Kiaʻi Kanaloa Convening, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, $7,500 secured. (October 27, 2017) Kūʻokoʻa: Sustaining Abundant ʻĀina and Resilient Leadership, Hui ʻĀina Momona, University of Hawaiʻi Strategic Investment Initiative, $300,000 awarded (October 16, 2017)

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health Position, Office of

Public Health Studies and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, 2018 - 2019

Affiliate Faculty to the University of Hawaii Indigenous Politics Program, 2012 - present Teaching Excellence Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2017.

Curriculum Committee, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2016 – present

Mālama Honua Committee, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2016 – 2017 Clinical and Community Outreach Building Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of

Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2015 - present

Academic Standards Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2013 – 2016

40th Anniversary Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2013 – 2014.

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Native Hawaiian Law Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2012 – present

Deanʻs Advisory Committee, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2012 – 2013

Search Committee for Associate Specialist position or Assistant Specialist position for joint appointment with

the Social Science Research Institute and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of

Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, March – May 2013 Search Committee for Assistant Professor position with joint appointment in Department of Economics,

College of Social Sciences and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, June 2012 Search Committee for Assistant Professor position in Sustainable Watershed and Coastal Management for

Hawaiʻi with joint appointment in Natural Resources and Environmental Management, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and Sea Grant College, School of Ocean and Earth Science and

Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, June 2012

Member, Hawaiʻi State Bar Association, Since 1998

Member, University of Hawaiʻi Professional Assembly, Since 2012

Member, Hoʻoponopono Training Cohort, sponsored by the Native Hawaiian Bar Association and under the direction of Lynette Paglinawan, March 2019 - Present

Poʻo (Lead), ʻAha Kiole O Molokaʻi, 2017 - Present Board Member, Hawaiian Community Assets, September 2013 – December 2018 Member, Association of Aha Moku Councils, October 2017 – Present

Member, Hawaiʻi People’s Fund Grant Makers Committee, 2011 – 2013 Vice-Chair and Board Member, Hawaiian Community Assets, September 2013 – Present

Council Member, State of Hawaiʻi Environmental Council, May 2011 – June 2014

Founder, President, Board Member, Sust `āina ble Molokai, 2010 – Present Chair, Molokai Island Burial Council, 2008 – 2011 Member (Alternate), Molokai Water Working Group, 2007 - 2008 Member, Alternatives to La`au Development Committee, 2006 Board Member, Hālawa Valley Land Trust, 2005 – 2011 Founding Board Member and Vice-President, Ka Honua Momona, International, 2003 - 2005 Member, Kamalō Conservation Advisory Group, 2002 – 2004

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Chair, Molokai Planning Commission, 1999 – 2004 Member, Kamalo Strategic Planning Advisory Council to Kamehameha Schools, 1999 - 2001 Member, Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Council, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 1998 - 2000 Board Member, Life of the Land, 1995 – 1998

Member, Ahupuaʻa Action Alliance, 1995 – 1997 Member, American Society of Limnology & Oceanography, 1993 – 1996