Ka‘iu Kimura named interim director of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language
Kaʻiu Kimura is interim director of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language beginning mid-August 2023.
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie Irwin has announced Kaʻiu Kimura is interim director of Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language beginning mid-August 2023. Kimura is long-standing executive director at UH Hilo’s ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi, a position she will retain while serving as interim director of the college.
“Ka Haka ʻUla has been working closely with ʻImiloa for a number of years, and thus Kaʻiu is well acquainted with the needs of the college, its students, and its staff and faculty,” says Chancellor Irwin.
Kimura has been a lecturer at the college, serves on the leadership team, and has developed Hawaiian language curriculum offered to Hawaiʻi’s business and tourism industries.
Previously, she worked at the non-profit ʻAha Pūnana Leo advancing Hawaiian language and culture as well as outreach programs to Native American communities and international Indigenous groups.
Kimura was a Pacific Century Fellow, a Center for Advancing Informal Science Education Fellow, and an inaugural Omidyar Fellow.
She received her bachelor of arts and master of arts in Hawaiian language and literature from UH Hilo and is currently a candidate in the university’s Indigenous language revitalization doctoral program.
