

He has conducted extensive research and penned numerous academic publications on governance, land tenure and Hawaiian resource management.

Richardson School of Law and Hawaiʻinuiākea. Kamanamaikalani Beamer has followed those trails and inspires our people to become skilled in our traditional practices as well as in policy and law to protect and nurture our ʻāina (land).”īeamer is a professor at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies in the Hui ʻĀina Momona Program at UH Mānoa with a joint appointment in the William S. “Along with her husband Issac, Dana has created legal and conceptual paths for Kānaka Maoli to walk beside our ancestors as we live and work in this modern world. “Naone Hall has changed the political and cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi through a lifetime of protecting sacred places and our people’s right to our beliefs and religious practices,” said Hawaiʻinuiākea Dean Jonathan Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio. Chair namesake, Dana Naone Hall is the guest of honor at the commemoration ceremony. The position is supported through a $3.2-million gift from the Laurence H. Starting August 2021, Beamer will take on the newly established position, named in honor of Dana Naone Hall, the revered poet and Native Hawaiian environmental activist. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge selected Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer as its inaugural Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment.
