Dr. Kealoha Fox oversees social health integration at AlohaCare, president of the Institute for Climate and Peace, and proud graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi. Kealoha applies Indigenous innovation for collaborative solutions in business, science, and policy. Her actions elevate healthy people, places, and futures through work uplifting mana and mauli ola for social justice. She is the recipient of more than 60 awards, including a Gates Foundation Goalkeeper, Obama Leader Asia Pacific, and a candidate for the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award. Each year, Kealoha mentors dozens of young women inside and outside of the academy. Living her kuleana, Kealoha has been trained in traditional practices and protocol such as ho‘oponopono, hāhā, and lā‘au lapa‘au. The roles she is most proud of in her story thus far is as a mother and caregiver.

Dr. Osorio is a professor and Dean of Hawaiinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. He received his PhD in History from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. At Kamakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, he has developed and taught classes in history, literature, law as culture, music as historical texts, and research methodologies for and from indigenous peoples. He is also a composer and singer and has been a Hawaiian music recording artist since 1975.

Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie is a Professor of Law Emerita and the Founding Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the Richardson School of Law.  After graduating in 1976 in the first class of the Law School, she served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William S. Richardson of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court.  Professor MacKenzie then joined the staff of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, a public interest law firm protecting and advancing the rights of Native Hawaiians and served as its Executive Director and as a senior staff attorney.  She has worked on cases asserting Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, dealing with quiet title and land issues, and defending the constitutionality of Native Hawaiian programs.  After joining the Law School faculty in 2005, she taught Native Hawaiian Rights, Federal Indian Law, topics in Native Hawaiian Law, and legal writing courses.  Professor MacKenzie is editor-in-chief and author of four chapters in Native Hawaiian Law:  A Treatise (2015), the definitive resource on Native Hawaiian Law.  She was awarded the University Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2013, served as Acting Dean of the Law School in Fall 2017, and received the Regents’ Robert W. Clopton Award for Distinguished Community Service in 2020. 

Dr. Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Punihei Lipe is a Native Hawaiian mother, daughter, ʻōlapa, and educator. In 2017, she was hired into the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) President’s Office as the inaugural Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer, where she implements findings from her award-winning research to advance UHM’s goal of becoming a Native Hawaiian place of learning. She is also the director of UHM’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center and the Institute for Hawaiian Language Research and Translation. She holds a BA in Hawaiian Studies, an MS in Counseling Psychology, and a PhD in Education Administration.