Nā Wāhine Koa - Hawaiian Women Warriers and Noelani Goodyear- Ka'ōpua

Welcome to the first episode of a special series of Migration
Conversations in Hawai'i. In this episode I am in conversation with
Noelani Goodyear-Ka’ōpua in an outdoor park with light rain
tickling us. Born to young activists and UH graduates, Noelani grew
up around Hawai’I communities and movements organizing around
evictions, environmental degradation and economic injustice. Now a
professor in political science at the College of Social Sciences,
University of Hawai’I at Manoā, her work focuses on documenting,
theorizing and practising Hawaiian sovereignty movement and invests
her time and energy into education and the ‘āina, nurturing
critical thinkers and doers. Her book Nā Wāhine Koa: Hawaiian Women
for Sovereignty and Demilitarization is a collaboration with four
activist elders who helped catalyze Hawaiian movements of the late
20th century.