People of HPA

It was a call-to-action for me to serve our oceans. I challenge my capstone students every year to do their part.”

We often think history is something that is ‘done,’ and we know what happened, but I try to get my students to see that we’re putting a story together based on the evidence we have.”

In my free time, I’m a songwriter and performer. I also love writing about music; I’m interested in things like the history of slack key guitar or the origins of the ‘ukulele in Hawai’i.”