Kumu Hulu Malia Helela

As a singer-songwriter, musician, and composer, Mālia has been serenading us at Still & Moving Center since we opened. She also serves as a kumu hula and lomilomi practitioner at Still & Moving Center. She teaches hula, oli  (Hawaiian chanting), lomilomi, ʻōlelo (Hawaiian language), and ʻukulele to a wide range of haumāna (students), from babies to kūpuna (elders), always interweaving music into her teaching.

Umi

Umi is ​​a teacher and independent scholar focused on Hawaiian and Indigenous theory. He teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and lectures in political science at Windward Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.