Working towards food system change
July 19, 2021
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 born and raised here on
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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 born and raised here on
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 life in the Philippines before
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 tanks of jet fuel just
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 didn’t feel like it was
Purple Prize documentarian, Kalei Akau shares part two of her reflections from the 2019 Purple Prize . Please read part one, “Piko ʻAumakua: Building Empathy & Forging Roots” first. Piko ʻiewe ʻIewe
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 room nervous but mostly excited
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 by the governor last week
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 ‘OUKOU!We invite you to join
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. Maybe it’s because our Director,
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 better for the world. We