Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer

Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer
Associate Specialist, Student Affairs, University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu Campus

Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer is a Native Hawaiian scholar-practitioner dedicated to the role aloha will play in worldwide awakening. She is a globally known Indigenous writer, evaluator, and thinker devoted to expanding views of knowledge to better address the needs of our time. She earned her doctorate (Harvard, 1998) on the topic of Hawaiian epistemology — philosophy of knowledge — and remains intentional about its capacity to inspire, instruct, and heal. Dr. Aluli Meyer’s two books — Hoʻoulu: Our Time of Becoming (2018), and Hoʻopono: Mutual Emergence (2025) — can be found at Native Books in Chinatown.

Dr. Aluli Meyer is active in the Food Sovereignty, Aloha ʻĀina, EA Hawaiʻi, and Hoʻoponopono movements throughout Hawaiʻi. She is currently the Konohiki of Kūlana o Kapolei — a Hawaiian Place of Learning — at the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu. She is a staunch uluniu — coconut grove — activist and believes it’s time to be clear about the principles of embodied knowing that create shared purpose with others. Ulu aʻe ke welina a ke aloha. Loving is the practice of an awake mind.