
Working towards food system change
Aloha! I am Sydney Millerd and I am a new social media intern at Purple Maiʻa for the summer. I am from Waipahu and was

Aloha! I am Sydney Millerd and I am a new social media intern at Purple Maiʻa for the summer. I am from Waipahu and was

Aloha! Iʻm Jess Manapul, the newest intern to join Purple Maiʻa. I was born in Guam, but I spent the first few years of my

We’ve known for a long time that Hawaiʻi’s dependence on tourism and military defense is not sustainable. From the under-valued hospitality worker to the leaky

When I first got the email from Alec Wagner three months ago that I would possibly be a fellow, everything felt relatively normal and life

Purple Prize documentarian, Kalei Akau shares part two of her reflections from the 2019 Purple Prize . Please read part one, “Piko ʻAumakua: Building Empathy &

On a late Wednesday afternoon about one year ago, I sat down with Donavan Kealoha, Kelsey Amos and Alec Wagner at a downtown Honolulu conference

There are no words to express the kaumaha that we at Purple Maiʻa felt upon the arrest of our kūpuna and the state force exercised

THE FLIGHT OF INNOVATION Like the ‘ua‘u bird that flies far out to sea to fish, our haumāna’s industriousness carries them to success.E HELE MAI

The challenge of climate change has always been in the back of our minds at the Purple Prize, but this year it feels more urgent.

At the Purple Prize we are trying to socialize a (k)new way of doing innovation that we feel is better for us in Hawaiʻi, and

Being chosen to attend Nalukai Academy is one of the best things that has ever happened to me in my life. Nalukai is a fully

Hi, my name is Kylyn Fernandez and I worked with Purple Maʻia, Maui Ocean Center, Kamehameha Schools and AlgorithmHub Inc. this past summer as a