Enjoy this interview featuring Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio! She is a CH '06 and ’07 alum.

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Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist/ activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). Her book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2021. 

Twitter: @JamaicaOsorio

Instagram: @JamaicaOsorio

Website: https://jamaicaosorio.wordpress.com/ 

Upcoming Book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/remembering-our-intimacies

PBS Documentary “This Is The Way We Rise”: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio-this-is-the-way-we-rise/15821/ 

UH Indigenous Politics Program: https://uhip.politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio/ 

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).