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Dates: October 27-28, 2017
Location: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Planning Committee Chair: Mariko Kershaw
Theme: Sustainability - More Than the Environment

Keynote Speakers

Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Keiki Kawai‘ae‘a resides in Keaukaha on Hawai‘i island. She currently serves as the Director of Ka Haka ‘Ula o Ke‘elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Keiki is one of the pioneering families of the Hawaiian immersion education movement and mauli ola education P-20. Her professional experience includes the K-12 classroom, curriculum and program development, teacher preparation and professional development. Keiki has been instrumental in the development of the Nā Honua Mauli Ola Hawaiian guidelines and cultural pathways and the Moenahā culture-based curriculum design and instructional method. She is a published author and has been an invited speaker at national and international gatherings addressing Indigenous education, language and culture revitalization, native teacher education and Hawaiian and culture-based education. Keiki has received several honors for her work in education, including the National Indian Education Association Educator of the Year, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and Innovation, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Kukui Mālamalama for Excellence in Hawaiian Education, and the Kamehameha Schools Ipu Kā‘eo Native Hawaiian Education Award.

Randall Kosaki
State Archivist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

​Dr. Randy Kosaki is a coral reef fish ecologist with NOAA's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Kosaki received a BA in marine biology from Occidental College, and a PhD in zoology from the University of Hawai‘i. Kosaki's research specialization is in the use of advanced dive technologies such as closed-circuit rebreathers to explore the coral reef "twilight zone," or mesophotic (deep) coral reefs between 150 and 330 feet deep. His research is primarily focused on the remote reefs of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, but has taken him to numerous localities across the tropical Pacific. In his free time, he enjoys photographing fishes, catching fishes, cooking fishes, and reading about fishes.

(​Picture courtesy of Andrew Wertheimer)

Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Library Director
LA County Libraries

Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, MLS, principal of Sustainable Libraries, LLC, has been a public library development consultant since 1998. Rebekkah currently holds the position of Coordinator for Library Sustainability at the Mid-Hudson Library System in New York where she assists 66 public libraries in the areas of governance, management, funding, and facilities.

​A founding member of the American Library Association’s Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT), Rebekkah spearheaded the passage of the American Library Association’s Resolution on the Importance of Sustainable Libraries.

Active in the New York Library Association (NYLA), Rebekkah is co-founder, and co-chair, of the NYLA Sustainability Initiative Committee.

Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2010, Rebekkah is Library Journal’s sustainability columnist and a frequent presenter at libraries and conferences around the US.

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