Hoʻākea Source 2025 Grant Awardees
Colleen Kimura
Nā Leo o Kapa
Avalon Paradea
OUR JOY iS SACRED
Lani Punani
Babaeng Babae Na
Hercules Goss-Kuehn
The Renkon Project
Noe Tanigawa
I OLA KANALOA
Davianna McGregor & Craig Neff
Hoʻomana Hale
Wahinekoa2025 Grant Recipient
Hoʻomana Hale is a workshop combining practical life skills and traditional Hawaiian practices aimed at healing generational trauma in native Hawaiian women. While all are welcome to this offering, they prioritize keeping kānaka in Hawaiʻi through collective healing of deep kaumaha o ka lāhui. This offering will include 3 sessions: power tools and pule kahiko, composting and pest management, as well as pale (spiritual and physical self defense).
Mother, teacher, business owner, advocate for sovereignty, and kānaka activist Emma Koa / Wahinekoa of Moon Kine Tingz has been moving through and with trauma and healing as a Native Hawaiian women since birth. Today, she is wholly dedicated to moving the waʻa of lāhui forward together towards sovereignty through many avenues of engagement including aloha aina, collective trauma healing workshops, free hawaiian language classes for community, kūʻē in political spaces, and teaching our next generation of leaders and feeders.