Kyle Kajihiro

Board Chair

Kyle Kajihiro is a founding member of HPJ and is actively engaged in efforts to demilitarize the Pacific for more than 30 years. As a lecturer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa he teaches classes in Ethnic Studies and Geography and Environment. His activism and research focus on U.S. imperial formations, militarization, and decolonization/demilitarization social movements in Hawai'i and the Pacific Region. Kyle also leads the Hawai'i DeTours Project­ historical-geographical tours of various sites on O'ahu which aim to foster solidarities and mutual responsibilities based on ea (life, breath, sovereignty, rising) and aloha 'aina (love, care, and political commitment to the land).

Ann Wright

Secretary

Ann Wright is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Ann has also opposed the expansion of NATO in Spain, fought to end the blockade in Cuba. and is actively involved in the Shutdown Red Hill Campaign and Cancel RIMPAC.

Joy Enomoto

Board Member

Joy Enomoto is the previous Executive Director of HPJ and currently works as an archivist the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142. She is also the Hope Pelekikina of Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu.

Tina Grandinetti

Board Member

Tina Grandinetti is an Uchinanchu scholar-activist born and raised on Kanaka Maoli lands. Her research aims to advance housing justice in occupied Hawai'i. She is committed to a demilitarized future for the Pacific and was among the first to organize for the #Shutdown Red Hill movement. Tina earned her MA in Indigenous Politics from the University of Hawaii Mānoa and her PhD from RMIT University School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. She currently serves as Chief of Staff for Rep. Amy Perruso in the Hawai'i House of Representatives.

Jamaica Heolimelekalani

Osorio

Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist / activist / scholar / educator / storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley, Hawaiʻi. She is an Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi, an internationally recognized poet, subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way we Rise, Co-writer of the VR film On the Morning You Wake (To the end of the world), and author of the award winning book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea. She believes in the power of aloha ʻāina and collective action to pursue liberatory, decolonial, and abolitionist futures of abundance

Natalie DeBiasi

Board Member

Natalie DeBiasi is Kanaka Maoli from Kaneohe, Oʻahu. She cares deeply about advancing social justice and battling systems of oppression in Hawaiʻi. She recently completed the Giving Project with Hawaiʻi Peoples Fund and also became the newest member of their board, to support and amplify the work of Hawaiʻi based grassroots organizations. This experience ignited a passion to stay connected to community organizing and fundraising

Hanaloa Helelā

Board Member

Hanaloa Helelā is a native Hawaiian activist and organizer who first became involved in activism during the first US War in Iraq during the early nineties. As an Air Force veteran, Hanaloa became involved in demilitarization effforts thoughout Hawai’i, working for the protection and return of US occupied lands. After learning about the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, Hanaloa became involved in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement, joining several organizations working throughout Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi, to protect Kānaka Maoli rights, culture, land, water and iwi kūpuna. Currently, he is a member of the Kānaka Maoli organization Kaʻohewai, who built a shrine at the gate of the Indo-Pacific Command following the Red Hill spill in November 2021. He is also a member of Oʻahu Water Protectors, ShutDown Red Hill Mutual Aid coalition and the Wai Ola Alliance (WOA), as a plaintiff in a citizenʻs suit against the US Navy for violations of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Tia Marie Masaniai

Youth Organizer

Tia is from Mānoa, in the Waikiki ahupuaʻa of Oʻahu. Her rain is tuahine. Her stream is ʻAuwaiolimu. Seattle is the home of my first political awakening in 2014, where my foundation of observation and analysis was built during my time at Seattle Central College. Mauna a Wakea during the 2019 stand off is where this grew into Community Organizing with Af3rm Hawaiʻi, an anti-imperialist organization in support of the demilitarization of Oceania. Remaining an active community member and advocate of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, the lāhui, and Aloha ʻĀina in the time since leaving both Af3rm and the Mauna. Always looking to deepen connections, solidarity and liberation.

Moana Masaniai

Executive Director