L to R: David Kauila Kopper ’10, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Amy Kalili ’06, ʻOiwi TV and director of Mokuola Honua; Kamehaʻililani Waiau, principal of Ke Kula ʻo Samuel M. Kamakau, Laboratory Public Charter School; law student Liʻipiʻilani Stevens Nāhiwa ’21.

On Thursday, February 13, Ka Huli Ao presented “I ka ʻŌlelo Ke Ola: Education and Advocacy in the Wake of Clarabal.” The panel focused on Hawaiian language education and advocacy in the wake of Clarabal v. Dep’t of Educ., which held that the Hawaiʻi Constitution imposes on the State a duty to provide for a Hawaiian education program in public schools that is reasonably calculated to revive the Hawaiian language. Kamehaʻililani Waiau, principal of Ke Kula ʻo Samuel M. Kamakau, Laboratory Public Charter School; David Kauila Kopper ’10, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; and Amy Kalili ’06, ʻŌiwi TV and director of Mokuola Honua, discussed Hawaiian language education and advocacy in the context of Clarabal v. Dept. of Educ. Liʻipiʻilani Stevens Nāhiwa ’21 moderated.