Jordan Kalawaiʻa Nunies, Contributing Reporter
Jordan Kalawaiʻa Nunies (he/him) graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Hawaiian Studies, along with a minor in Hawaiian Language, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Spring 2025. He is currently a graduate student at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, working on a critical historiographical inquiry on archival documents related to his birth sands, Āliapaʻakai. He works as both a Graduate Teaching Assistant for HWST 107: Hawaiʻi: Center of the Pacific, under the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, and as an NHSS Research Center & Program Assistant under Native Hawaiian Student Services.
