SPEAKER SERIES

The Maui Nui Makai Network Mālama I Ke Kai: Speaker Series (2021-2023) is meant to inspire and inform Hawai'i community leaders and is companion to the Maui Nui Makai Network's Mālama I Ke Kai: Community Action Guide, released in 2020.

​Mālama I Ke Kai: Speaker Series Recordings
2021-2023
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Episode 18 | Kīpahulu CBSFA
Aunty Tweetie, Kane, Pekelo, Kamalei, & Ka'uiki Lind of Kīpahulu 'Ohana
​December 7, 2023

​Episode 17 | Onna Village Fisheries Cooperation
Masami Yamashiro
September 15, 2023

Episode 16 | We Are Oceania
Josie Howard
July 20, 2023

Episode 15 | Deep Sea Mining
Uncle Sol Kaho'ohalahala of Maunalei Ahupua'a CMMA & UH Minoa Professor of Oceanography Jeff Drazen
June 15, 2023

Episode 14 | Northern Chumash Tribal Council
Chair Violet Sage Walker, Elder Mike Khus-Zarate, & Executive Assistant Gianna Patchen
​March 16, 2023

Episode 13 | Ka Honua Momona
Tiani Cook & Shaye Lauifi
January 19, 2023

Episode 12 | Year of the Limu 2022
Malia Heimuli & Lei Wann-Keli'iho'omalu of the Limu Hui
November 17, 2022

Episode 11 | We Love 'Opihi
Hank Eharis of Nā Mamo O Mūʻolea, Scott Crawford of Kīpahulu 'Ohana, Emily Fielding of The Nature Conservancy, & Dr. Chris Bird of Texas A&M University
May 19, 2022

Episode 10 | Fijian funerals and Social/Ecological Resilience
Ron Vave
March 17, 2022

Episode 9 | Ahupua'a Restoration at Kāko’o ‘Ōiwi
Kanekoa Shultz
February 17, 2022

Episode 8 | Hāʻena CBSFA 5-year Review
Presley Wann, Keli'i Alapai, & Emily Cadiz of Hui Makaʻāinana o Makana
January 20, 2022

Episode 7 | What is Kaʻūpūlehu's "Try Wait" Initiative?
Hannah Kihalani Springer of the Kaʻūpūlehu Marine Life Advisory Committee
November 18, 2021

Episode 6 | Oneisomw: Building Community Resilience In Chuuk
Paul Freddy and Marcellus Akapito of the Oneisomw Community, Federated States of Micronesia
October 21, 2021

Episode 5 | Huliʻia: A Practical Approach for Monitoring Your Resources
Pelika Andrade of Nā Maka Onaona
September 16, 2021

Episode 4 | INDIGENOUS=INGENIUS: Kanaka Science to Support Aloha ʻĀina
Kelson Poepoe, Pekelo Lind & Kehau Springer 
August 19, 2021

Episode 3 | Establishing Fisheries Co-Management Areas in Kenya
George Maina of Africa Fisheries, The Nature Conservancy
July 15, 2021

Episode 2 | Miloliʻi Community Based Subsistence Fishing Area
Ka'imi Kaupiko & Laika Kaupu of Kalanihale
June 17, 2021

Episode 1 | Stories from Yurok Nation
Javier Kinney of the Yurok Tribe
May 20, 2021

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Watch our video "Connecting Communities in the Time of COVID-19" featured at the 2022 Hawai'i Conservation Conference where the Network recaps how our Speaker Series kept us all connected during the isolating years of the pandemic. As Aunty Maile says in the film, "Connections are the lifeforce that drive us to continue our work."