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Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua
Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua is a Kanaka Maoli scholar and educator whose work centers on Native Hawaiian social movements, culture-based education, and energy and food politics.[1] She has published several books concerning the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and Native Hawaiian education initiatives.[1] She is also a co-founder of Hālau Kū Māna, a Hawaiian culture-based charter school, which opened in Honolulu in 2001.[2] Since 2007, she has taught at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an associate professor of Political Science and the Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel.[3] BirthGoodyear-Ka'ōpua was born on the island of O'ahu, Hawaii, in the 1970s.[4] Her parents were student activists engaged in the growing Native Hawaiian land rights movement at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[4] She has ancestry in the Maui Islands as well as Southern China and the British Midlands.[1] EducationGoodyear-Ka'ōpua attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in the mid-1990s, where she was a student of Haunani-Kay Trask.[4] She graduated magna cum laude from the university in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hawaiian studies and political science.[3] In 2005 she received her Ph.D in history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[3] Professional activitiesGoodyear-Ka'ōpua worked as an instructor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1997 to 1998 and then again from 2002 to 2005.[3] In 2002, she became an instructor at the College Opportunities Program at the same university.[3] Since 2007 she has taught at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, as an associate professor of Political Science.[3] In 1999 Goodyear-Ka'ōpua co-founded the Hālau Kū Māna Public Charter School in Honolulu, Hawai'i.[3] The school was created with the mission to become a center for Native Hawaiian cultural revitalization and community empowerment.[5] Hālau Kū Māna opened in 2001 and remains one of the few Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in Honolulu.[5] Goodyear-Ka'ōpua gave a talk at TEDxMānoa titled "The Enduring Power of Aloha Āina" on 5 October, 2012.[6] Community serviceGoodyear-Ka'opua founded and served as Board President of Mana Maoli,[7] a non-profit organization supporting Native Hawaiian community-based education, from 1999 to 2008.[3] She served on the board and grant-making committee for the Hawai'i People's Fund[8] from 2005 to 2010.[3] Goodyear-Kā'opua has served as a board member for Hui o Kuapā,[9] a non-profit founded in 1989 to support Native Hawaiian fishpond restoration, education, and research, since 2015.[3] She also currently serves on the board for the Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy[10] and the advisory board for the Hawai'i Center for Food Safety.[3] Since 2014 Goodyear-Ka'opua has served as the lead curriculum developer and facilitator of a series of community organizers' trainings called Movement-Building for Ea.[3] She currently serves as Professional Secretary and Executive Board Member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.[3][11] PublicationsBooksGoodyear-Ka'opua is the author of The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School, published in 2013.[12] The book examines the history of the Hālau Kū Māna Charter Public School in Honolulu and outlines the challenges of implementing traditional Hawaiian culture-based education under the context of U.S. occupation.[12] The book covers the U.S. charter school movement and the struggle for Hawaiian self-determination under settler-colonialism.[12] Goodyear-Ka'opua is also the co-editor (with Aiko Yamashiro[13]) of The Value of Hawai'i 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions, and A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty (with Ikaika Hussey and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright), both published in 2014.[1] Both books cover topics on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, public health, environmental policy and Indigenous food justice activism, education, art, and Indigenous futurity.[1] Goodyear-Ka'opua is the co-author of Militarism and Nuclear Testing in Oceania, a Teaching Oceania textbook, published in 2016.[14] In 2019, Goodyear-Ka'opua published Nā Wāhine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization,[15] a collaboration with four activist elders who helped catalyze Hawaiian movements of the late 20th century. Her current work is an upcoming intellectual biography on Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask. Articles in referenced journals
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