DR. MANULANI ALULI MEYER

Konohiki – Kūlana o Kapolei
University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu

Manulani Aluli Meyer is the fifth daughter of Emma Aluli and Harry Meyer, who grew up on the sands of Mokapu and Kailua beach on the Hawaiian Island of O‘ahu. The Aluli ‘ohana is a large and diverse group of scholar-activists dedicated to Hawaiian education, justice, land reclamation, law, health, healing, cultural revitalization, arts education, prison reform, food sovereignty, transformational economics, and music. Aluli Meyer works in the field of indigenous epistemology, with an interest in its role in worldwide awakening. She obtained her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Harvard (Ed.D. 1998), and is a global keynote speaker, writer, and international evaluator of Indigenous PhDs. Her book Ho‘oulu: Our Time of Becoming (2001) is in its third printing, and her book Hoʻopono: Mutual Emergence (2024) is forthcoming. Aluli Meyer served as an Associate Professor of Education at University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and spent five years in New Zealand as the lead designer/teacher for He Waka Hiringa, an innovative master’s degree in Applied Indigenous Knowledge at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, the world’s largest Māori university. Aluli Meyer is currently the Konohiki for Kūlana o Kapolei (A Hawaiian Place of Learning) at University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu.