Mike is the current Dean of the University of Washington's School of Social Work and serves as the director of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceanic Affairs at the University of Washington's Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI). His research examines health and wellness among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders and is focused on interventions that promote health among Native Hawaiians through indigenous practices and values.

Max is a multiracial Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Chinese clinical psychologist and research scientist at the Social Development Research Group in the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. His research seeks to understand risk and protective factors for later substance use and mental health problems among youth and young adults in order to inform preventive interventions. In his work he centers key aspects of identity as determinants of mental health.

Santino is a CHamoru doctoral student at the School of Social Work. His research focuses on the application of cultural resurgence and survivance in culturally rooted health promotion for Queer and Transgender Pacific Islanders; the codification of CHamoru and Pasifika values in Indigenous health research; and Indigenous and Pasifika health equity broadly.

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Buddy is a Kānaka Maoli researcher in the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI). His research centers on Indigenized community health for diaspora Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders through culturally grounded, biomedical, and community-based methodologies. Buddy is currently a medical student at the University of Washington's School of Medicine. 

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