Hokulani K. Aikau

Hōkūlani K. Aikau is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) interdisciplinary scholar trained in American Studies and Sociology. Her research focuses on contemporary Native Hawaiian identity and politics, Indigenous resurgence and climate change, Indigenous environmental justice, Native feminist theory, race relations, and food sovereignty.[2] She is also the author of *A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i*, which examines how Native Hawaiians have negotiated Hawaiian and Mormon identities.[3][4]