Speaker: Kevin Chang
Abstract
KUA’s Executive Director Kevin Chang will discuss some of the roots behind community movements in environmental governance and self-determination to aloha ʻāina (to care for that which feeds) and recent community successes in building a culture around community-based subsistence fishery management, traditional aquaculture and the traditional significance of limu (seaweed).
Bio
Kevin Chang is the Executive Director of Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo which means “grassroots growing through shared kuleana (responsibility)” the acronym KUA means back. Like a backbone KUA is a convening and advocacy organization for movement networks for rural and Native Hawaiian community driven biocultural resource management initiatives. Kevin and his team are building a “backbone organization” that supports community-based solutions to problems stemming from environmental degradation in Hawai’i. KUA works with its network and community members, government agencies and civil society towards restoring the traditional role of Hawai’i communities as caretakers of their lands and waters.
Photo: Cultural walking trail in Moomomi, credit: Kua’Ᾱina Ulu ‘Auamo