Day 3 Manaʻo for Cohort Waikolu August 12, 2026

Mahalo to our fantastic and wonderfully supportive friends and past cohort participants at UH Mānoa’s Cancer Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM)—we are so fortunate to be hosted in such beautiful yet different areas of UH Mānoa! Today, I really appreciated our time together during our Moʻokūʻauhau Mappings, and I feel so much appreciation for all of the laughter, stories, and personal histories that were shared throughout the day. 

One thing really sticking with me right now is the way that our phenomenal interim director Noelani offered a framing of kuleana as a relational technology that allows us to think about the complex ways in which we are in relation and connected to one another. In a world that pressures us to think in dichotomies (e.g., black and white, or top and bottom), I appreciate the way that this understanding of kuleana grounds our learning in the Kanaka ʻŌiwi epistemological sources of this concept.