Kanoe Nāone, PhD

O`ahu Representative

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As CEO of INPEACE, Kanoe Nāone manages all programmatic, grant writing and reporting activities.  Ms. Nāone is a member of the Act 259 Legislative Task Force and the Na Lau Lama Planning Committee as well as a board member for Good Beginnings Alliance and the Kamehameha Publishing Board. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa campus and will graduate in May of 2008. Her area of study is Indigenous Politics and her dissertation is titled: The Dialectic of Place: land, community, language and place as sites of reclamation for indigenous education.

Prior to her work with INPEACE, Kanoe was the Community Relations and Development Director for Keiki O Ka ‘Āina Family Learning Centers, where she was responsible for the agency’s self sustainability efforts that included land purchase, the development and implementation of a cultural outdoor classroom and construction of a learning center and preschool.  In addition she advised on Hawaiian language and culture in programs.  Kanoe also served as the Executive Director of The Pa Lehua Project on the Big Island and before that, she taught for five years in the state Department of Education’s Hawaiian Immersion program.