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]

Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua
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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]

Birth

Goodyear-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]

Education

Goodyear-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 activities

Goodyear-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 service

Goodyear-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]

Publications

Books

Goodyear-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
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N. "Protectors of the Future, not Protestors of the Past." South Atlantic Quarterly, 116, no. 1 (2017): 184-194.
  • Ka'ōpua, L.S., Goodyear-Ka'ōpua J.N., Ka'awa, J., Amona, S.K., Browne, C.V., & Robles, A.S. "Look to the Source: Gathering Elder Stories as Segue to Youth Action-Oriented Research." International Public Health Journal, 8, no.2 (2016), 271-281.[3]
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N. & Baker, M. "The Great Shift: Moving Beyond a Fossil Fuel-based Economy." Hūlili journal: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being, 8 (2012): 133-166.[3]
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N. "Kuleana lāhui: Collective responsibility for Hawaiian nationhood in activists' praxis." Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 5, Special issue on Anarch@Indigenism (2011): 130-163.[3]
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N. "Rebuilding the 'Auwai: Connecting ecology, economy and education in Hawaiian schools." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 5, no. 2 (2009): 46-77.
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N., Kauai, W., Maioho, K., & Winchester, I. "Teaching Amid Occupation: Sovereignty, Survival and Social Studies at a Native Hawaiian Charter School." Hūlili Journal: Multdisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being, 5 (2008): 155-201.[3]
  • Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, N. & Ka'ōpua, L. "Dialoging Across the Pacific: Kūkākúkā and the Cultivation of Wahine Maoli Identity." Pacific Studies, 29, no. 3/4 (2007): 48-63.[3]

Book reviews

Fellowships
  • Mellon-Hawai'i Postdoctoral Fellowship. Sept 2010-June 2011.[3]
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2010-2011.[3]
  • First Nations Futures Program Fellowship. Awarded 2008.[3]
  • Laco'o award for outstanding Hawaiian dissertation. Awarded by the Native Hawaiian Education Association. March 2008.[3]
  • Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow 1999.[3][16]

References
  1. Camp, Amber. "Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua | Political Science | UH Manoa". www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-29. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  2. "College of Social Sciences (CSS) |J. NoelaniGoodyear-Kaopua| University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii". www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  3. "Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, PhD Faculty Profile" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-11-01.
  4. "Noelani Goodyear Ka'opua: The ongoing journey of Hawai'i sovereignty | Indigenous Governance Database". nnigovernance.arizona.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  5. "Hālau Kū Māna". Hālau Kū Māna. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  6. TEDx Talks (2013-10-28), The enduring power of aloha aIna: Noelani Goodyear Kaopua at TEDxManoa, archived from the original on 2014-07-23, retrieved 2018-12-03
  7. "Home | Mana Maoli". Mana Maoli. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  8. "hawaiipeoplesfund". hawaiipeoplesfund. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  9. "Home". Hui o Kuapā. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  10. "Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy". Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy. Archived from the original on 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  11. "Native American and Indigenous Studies Association". Archived from the original on 2019-04-23.
  12. "The Seeds We Planted". University of Minnesota Press. Archived from the original on 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  13. "The Value of Hawaii 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions". UH Press. 2018-09-18. Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  14. Genz, Joseph H.; Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Noelani; LaBriola, Monica C.; Mawyer, Alexander; Morei, Elicita N.; Rosa, John P. (2019). "Volume 1 of Teaching Oceania Series, Militarism and Nuclear Testing in the Pacific". hdl:10125/42430. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. "Nā Wāhine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization". UH Press. 24 June 2020.
  16. "Hawaiian Blood". Duke University Press. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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