Born in Japan and raised in Minnesota, Kenji Cataldo is a media maker and graduate student living in Makiki. Their studies focus on militarism, imperialism, decolonization, and land-based social movements in the Pacific and Caribbean. For their MA in Pacific Islands Studies at UH Mānoa, they are currently producing an oral history podcast series with Mālama Mākua about the movement for the return and restoration of Mākua Valley. Kenji co-hosts and produces the “Hawai‘i Rising” podcast for the Hawai‘i People’s Fund as well as the “Oceania Currents” podcast for the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.