Professional Development |
Spring 2025 |
Are you interested in updating your curriculum toward sustainability solutions to understand and address our planetary predicament? This workshop will introduce participants to frameworks for integrating sustainability and climate change into your courses.
Day 1: Saturday, March 1 2025
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Day 2: Sunday, March 2, 2025
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Ulla Hasager is Director of Civic Engagement for UHM’s College of Social Sciences and Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean. She leads engaged curriculum creation as well as professional and program development across communities, institutions, and disciplines, for instance leading the innovative Mālama I Nā Ahupuaʻa service-learning program which is internationally recognized as a model for sustainability education. Ulla coordinates SENCER Hawaiʻi (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), is co-director of the national SENCER’s Center for Innovation West, and a member of the Hawaiʻi planning team for the Continuums of Service 2025 conference.
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Krista Hiser (Ph.D.) currently serves as the Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education at the Global Council for Science and the Environment. Formerly the Director of the University of Hawaiʻi System Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, she is also the host of AASHE’s Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club and teaches writing at Kapiʻolani Community College, with an emphasis on sustainability and climate change education. Her doctoral degree is in Educational Administration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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Aya H. Kimura is a Professor of Sociology, Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean, and Director of the University of Hawaiʻi Center on Sustainability Across the Curriculum. She has an MA in Environmental Studies (Yale) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Her books include Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (Duke University Press: recipient of the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science) and Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell University Press: recipient of the Outstanding Scholarly Award from the Rural Sociological Society).
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Kamakanaokealoha “Kamakana” M. Aquino is from Waimānalo, Oʻahu and is the Native Hawaiian Coordinator for Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences. Kamakana coordinates and supports Hawaiian-centered programs in teaching, learning, service, and scholarship, including the College’s Nā Koʻokoʻo: Hawaiian Leadership Program for students, and Hulihia: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Social Sciences Curriculum Program for College faculty.
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Dr. Chip Fletcher, is the interim Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and Director of the Climate Resilience Collaborative research team. He is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences and past Chair of the Honolulu Climate Change Commission. Chip is special advisor to Governor Josh Green for Climate and Resilience, and serves on the Governors Climate Advisory Team, and Decarbonization Working Group.
Chip’s research focuses on assimilating global trends in decarbonization and climate projections, integrating climate projections for Hawai‘i to understand future shocks and stresses driving adaptation needs, and modeling the impacts of sea level rise in Hawai‘i. |
Dr. Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor, was on the founding faculty and is now a professor emerita of Ethnic Studies and Oral History at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. Her ongoing research endeavors focus on the persistence of traditional Hawaiian cultural customs, beliefs, and practices, especially in rural Hawaiian communities. She pioneered ʻāina-based education and community service learning, beginning in the 1980s. She is a longtime leader of the Protect Kaho'olawe &'Ohana that stopped military use of the island of Kaho'olawe and now helps to heal and revitalize the island. She lives in Kaiwʻula on
Oʻahu. |
The field trip will take the participants from the UH Mānoa Campus to the Native Forest Restoration site, Waiakeakua, in the back of Mānoa Valley. The field activity will start at 8 am. Be ready to get muddy and walk around.
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Spring 2024 |
Are you interested in changing your curriculum toward sustainability issues such as climate change? This conference will introduce participants to frameworks for integrating sustainability into your courses.
Day 1: Saturday, April 20, 2024
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Day 2: Sunday, April 21, 2024
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Krista Hiser (Ph.D.) currently serves as the Senior Lead and Advisor for Sustainability Education at the Global Council for Science and the Environment. Formerly the Director of the University of Hawaiʻi System Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, she is also the host of AASHE’s Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club and teaches writing at Kapiʻolani Community College, with an emphasis on sustainability and climate change education. Her doctoral degree is in Educational Administration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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Kamakanaokealoha “Kamakana” M. Aquino is from Waimānalo, Oʻahu and is the Native Hawaiian Coordinator for Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences. Kamakana coordinates and supports Hawaiian-centered programs in teaching, learning, service, and scholarship, including the College’s Nā Koʻokoʻo: Hawaiian Leadership Program for students, and Hulihia: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Social Sciences Curriculum Program for College faculty.
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Katy Hintzen is a Coastal Resilience Specialist with the UH Sea Grant College Program. She is also the Project and Partnership Coordinator for the Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence, and specializes in helping coastal communities prepare for and adapt to climate change impacts across the Hawaiian Islands. In a team partnership with Kua’aina Ulu ʻAuamo and Paepae o Heʻeia, she worked to develop Kūlana Noiʻi, a set of guidelines for building and sustaining reciprocal partnerships between researchers and Native Hawaiian resource stewards. Katy continues to work to incorporate the values and guidance of Kūlana Noiʻi into institutional practices and curriculum.
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Diana’s research has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change and her main research interests include climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate policy and mitigation especially in the developing world. Her current projects on climate justice include the role of women in climate science, climate and poverty in Tucson, and climate in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is also working with the Earth Commission to envision safe and just targets for the earth system and is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report author and editor.
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Aya H. Kimura is a Professor of Sociology, Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean, and Director of the University of Hawaiʻi Center on Sustainability Across the Curriculum. She has an MA in Environmental Studies (Yale) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Her books include Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (Duke University Press: recipient of the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science) and Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell University Press: recipient of the Outstanding Scholarly Award from the Rural Sociological Society).
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Ulla Hasager is Director of Civic Engagement for UHM’s College of Social Sciences and Senior Advisor to the CSS Dean. She leads engaged curriculum creation as well as professional and program development across communities, institutions, and disciplines, for instance leading the innovative Mālama I Nā Ahupuaʻa service-learning program which is internationally recognized as a model for sustainability education. Ulla coordinates SENCER Hawaiʻi (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), is co-director of the national SENCER’s Center for Innovation West, and a member of the Hawaiʻi planning team for the Continuums of Service 2025 conference.
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Feild Trip to WaiakeakuaThe field trip will take the participants from the UH Mānoa Campus to the Native Forest Restoration site, Waiakeakua, in Mānoa Valley. The field trip will start at 8 am. Be ready to get muddy!
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