full CV available upon request
please find a background sampling below
Education
Master's in Environmental Law and Policy, Vermont Law School, 2012
Master's in Indigenous Politics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2010
Bachelor of Arts in Protecting Hawai'i's Environment, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2003
Academic Presentations
Speaker: International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas, Montreal, Quebec.
Topic: "Society v.2012: Subversive Strategies for Supplanting the Growth Imperative."
Speaker: Symposium, Mykonos, Greece.
Topic: "Reclaiming Indigenous Myths, Narratives, and Oral Histories as a Means Towards Decolonization."
Speaker: NAISA Annual Conference (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association), Arizona, USA.
Topic: "Can The State be Used Against Itself?"
Speaker: National Student Leadership Conference, Vermont, USA.
Topic: "The Empire Strikes Back? Sustainability and Resiliency as Strategies Towards Decolonization."
frontlines advocacy
Legal Observer, National Lawyer’s Guild
2019 Pu’uhonua o Pu’uhuluhulu, Mauna Kea
Legal Observer, National Lawyer’s Guild
2015 DKIST action, Maui, Hawai’i
Legal Observer, National Lawyer’s Guild
2012 May Day Strikes, New York City
Legal Observer, National Lawyer’s Guild
2011 Occupy Wall Street, New York City
Legal Observer, National Lawyer’s Guild
2011 Anti-Nuclear Rally and Sit in, Vermont
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