Hawaii Book & Music Festival

Kamanamaikalani Beamer, PhD, is a full professor at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa with a dual appointment in the School of Hawaiian Knowledge and Richardson School of Law. Inspired by international knowledge exchange, his recent work explores how aloha ʻāina and the Circular... Read More →

Sumner La Croix is Professor Emeritus in the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Department of Economics and a research fellow with the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization. His research focuses on the economic history of Hawai‘i and Australia, and institutional change... Read More →

Matthew Kamakani Lynch has worked in a broad range of community-based sustainable development projects from Laos to Mongolia to Vanuatu; from building rural community resilience through farmer trainings, to sustainable economic development, to catalyzing institutional change through... Read More →

Kirsten Oleson is an Associate Professor of Ecological Economics with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research program uses insights from the natural and social sciences to study the reciprocal relationships... Read More →