Kaimana Barcarse

Kaimana Barcarse is the Director of the Honuakai Exploration Sciences and Voyaging Division of the 'Aha Punana Leo, whose mission is to utilize the wa'a (canoe) as a platform to strengthen the Hawaiian language skills and cultural traditions of its participants. Also an instructor at Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani Hawaiian Language College of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Kaimana hails from a hula family and is the Program Director and lead DJ of Alana I Kai Hikina, a Hawaiian language radio show on KWXX-FM, as well as a photographer who documents the indigenous Hawaiian cultural experience.