Professor and Chair of Political Science at University of Hawaii and Kanaka Maoli activist & scholar. She shares with us how the concept of Aloha ʻĀina connects to the call for Hawaiian sovereignty as well as the demands of the black lives matter movement. 

Aloha ʻĀina expresses an unswerving dedication to the health of the natural world that we understand as family and ancestors. We have a saying that the land is the chief and we are the servents. 

Be sure to listen to the full conversation from our Advancing Environmental Justice Panel Discussion.