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Zoe Whitney

Only at UH Hilo: How a budding environmental scientist is adding global language revitalization and documentary filmmaking to her toolbox  

In 2018, a group of performing arts students at UH Hilo performed children’s tales for local schoolchildren, all in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language). Inspired by this and other language revitalization efforts she witnessed in Sweden, an environmental science major is producing a documentary film on the global movement to revitalize indigenous languages.