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Dates: November 18-19, 2022
Location: Virtual
Planning Committee Chairs: Jenny Silbiger 
Theme: Voyages: Past, Present, and Visions of the Future. 2022 commemorates the 100-year journey of the Hawaiʻi Library Association, as well as marks a time when libraries and library colleagues find themselves emerging into a post-COVID-19 pandemic world. These particular voyages have significantly shaped our library profession, and we acknowledge the diverse ways our library resources and services have developed, responded, and flourished due to our changing circumstances, and the needs and perspectives of our communities.

Keynote Speakers

Lessa Pelayo-Lozada
President, American Library Association

Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada is the 2022-23 President of the American Library Association and Adult Services Assistant Manager at the Palos Verdes Library District in Southern California. She is a Past Executive Director and Past President of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). In 2022 she received the American Library Association Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in the advocacy category. Much of her work focuses on promoting and achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion in libraries and librarianship. She lives in San Pedro, California with her poet husband, Christian Hanz Lozada and their menagerie of pets. Find out more about her at lessaforlibraries.com. 

Nou Revilla
Creative Writing Professor, ​UH Mānoa

Noʻu Revilla (she/her) is an ʻŌiwi (Hawaiian) poet, performer, and educator. Born and raised with the Līlīlehua rain of Waiʻehu on the island of Maui, she currently lives and loves with the Līlīlehua rain of Pālolo valley on Oʻahu. Her debut book of poetry Ask the Brindled was selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series. She has performed and facilitated workshops throughout Hawaiʻi and abroad. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, where she teaches creative writing. She is a lifetime "slyly / reproductive" student of Haunani-Kay Trask.

Solomon Enos
Native Hawaiian Artist, Illustrator, and Visionary

Solomon Robert Nui Enos is a Native Hawaiian artist, illustrator, and visionary. Born and raised in Makaha Valley (Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi), Solomon hails from the well-known Enos ʻohana. Solomon has been making art for more than 30 years and he is adept at artistic expression in a wide variety of media including oil paintings, book illustrations, murals, and game design. A self-described “Possibilist” Solomon’s art expresses an informed aspirational vision of the world at its best via contemporary and traditional art that leans towards Sci-Fi and Fantasy. His work touches on themes like collective-consciousness, ancestry and identity, our relationship with our planet, and all through the lens of his experience as a person indigenous to Hawai’i.

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