Rebecca Delafield, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and Affiliate faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research primarily focuses on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders health, maternal and perinatal health, exploring perceptions of and experiences with health care, and community-engaged interventions to improve health equity.

School/Department: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health/Community Health Sciences and UH Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health/Public Health Sciences

Email: delafiel@hawaii.edu

Justin D. Levinson is a Professor of Law at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. He is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system. His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.  

School/Department: William S. Richardson School of Law 

Email: justinl@hawaii.edu

Kristin Pauker, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and director of the ISP lab. Her research explores how a person’s immediate environment and culturally-shaped theories about race impact basic social perception, social interactions, and stereotyping in childhood and throughout development. Her work has been widely published in academic journals (e.g., Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology) and has been supported with over $1 million in combined support from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. 

School/Department: UH College of Social Sciences/Psychology

Email: kpauker@hawaii.edu

Andrea Hepuapo`okela Hermosura, PhD, is a Native Hawaiian Assistant Professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health and the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice and Caregiver Wellness at The Queen’s Health System. In her role, she will be responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of system-wide policies, practices, initiatives, and programs that are in alignment with the QHS mission and values. Her research interests include Native Hawaiian health, health inequities, how factors like perceived racism and implicit racial bias impact the health inequities experienced by Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, and community-based participatory research.

School/Department: John A. Burns School of Medicine / Native Hawaiian Health

Email: nacapoy@hawaii.edu

E. Brook Chapman de Sousa, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the College of Education. She specializes in multilingualism and elementary education and teacher preparation. 

School/Department: UH College of Education/Institute for Teacher Education – Elementary Education and Multilingual Learning Program

Email: ebsousa@hawaii.edu