ʻAha Moʻolelo member
Pilina:
~ Hawaiian language instructor, University of Hāwaiʻi Mānoa
Moʻolelo:
Eia mai nō he wahi ahe Malanai, no Kailua, Koʻolaupoko. I ulu i ka malu o Konahuanui, Ulumawao a me Olomana. I ola hoʻi i ka ua pōpō kapa a me ka ua ʻĀpuakea. I kena hoʻi i ka wai o Kamakalepo, ʻŌmaʻo a hiki loa aku i Kawainui. I huli hoʻi ka lima i lalo ma ia wai hoʻi, ma nā Pōhaku o Hauwahine mā. He wahi kama hoʻi o ka ʻanae alo lenalena a me ke awa kuaehu. Na ia mau momona kaulana o ka ʻāina nō i hānai mai i nā kūpuna mai kinohi mai.
Lifelong kauwā and student of ʻāina, Kapōmaikaʻi is a Hawaiian language instructor for Kawaihuelani at UH Manoa, and doctoral student of the Political Science department. A recipient of the 2024 Presidential Citation for Meritous Teaching, Kapōmaikaʻi guides us in reclaiming our ancestral languages as powerful pathway to remembering ourselves and right relationship with our place. She is a student of, and advocate for the reestablishment of our original food systems as potent pathway to uphold the relationship that is ʻāina, reclaim our ancestral nourishment, and heal both our inner and outer climates. Her focus is on our seasonal harvest restrictions that allow for species to birth. Her ʻohana descends from the uplands Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu, ma ke poʻowai o Kamakalepo. She resides in Mānoa, beneath ka ua Tuahine, i uka hoʻi o ke kai o Kalehuawehe, e kilohi aku ana iā Leʻahi. Waipuna lau ke aloha!