Conferences & Lectures

Moderator and Presenter.  "MOANA - HAWAIʻI: DECOLONIAL IMAGINATIONS OF PASIFIKA WOMEN." 2024 Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement Annual Conference, Kona, HI.

“Mixed Methodologies: Pacific Approaches Within Western Criminal Systems To Encourage Diversion Programs That Embraces Pacific Cultures and Languages,” Speaker at the Papa Ola Lōkahi NHPI CHW Association of Hawaiʿi Conference. Honolulu, HI.

“Cultivating Pacific Studies in Ko’olauloa.” Paper presentation organized at the 36th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education. Honolulu, HI.

Speaker and Facilitator, “Cosmogony of Eve, Sina, and Hina.” Women’s Conference, Women’s Services & Resources Department. Brigham Young University-Hawai’i, HGB 132.

Organizer and Board Member, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Virtual.

Individual paper session, 2023 Pacific History Association Conference, “American Sāmoa Citizenship: How Legal Advocacy Remakes American Sāmoa into Subordinate Colonial Subjects and Imposed Citizens.” Deakin University, Warrnambool, Australia.

Individual paper session, Law and Society Annual Association Meeting, “Inter-Territorial Hegemony and American Sāmoa: Resisting Homeland Dispossession vis-à-vis Guise of American Citizenship.” Colonial Structures and Decolonization Session, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Co-Convener, Informal session, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, “Examining the process of protecting spaces, places, and the identity of Pacific Islanders.”  Kona, Hawaiʿi.

Working session, co-convener, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, “Pacific Sisters at the crossroads of discrimination in politics, gender, and identification (sex) identities.” Kona, Hawaiʿi.

Individual paper session, Informal session, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, “With less than 1% of women that are Mātai from American Sāmoa, are there barriers to women in the traditional space of fa’amātai” in Pacific sisters at the crossroads of discrimination in politics and gender identities session. Seattle, Washington.

Individual paper session, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Counter-Histories of U.S. Insular Imperialism,“Inter-Territorial Hegemony and American Sāmoa: Resisting Homeland Dispossession.”

Panelist, David O. McKay Lecturer Panel, Little Theater, Brigham Young University-Hawai’i.

Facilitator, “Population Policy Action Plan for American Sāmoa.” Workshop and Committee for the American Sāmoa Population Commission. Fale Laumei, Utulei, American Samoa.

Moderator. “Opportunities in Commercial Agriculture and Food Science: A Breadfruit Initiative.”  Co-sponsored with University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa Pacific Business Center Program. Fale Laumei, Utulei, American Samoa.

Speaker and Moderator.  Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.  Sadie’s by the Sea, Pago Pago, American Sāmoa.

Speaker.  American Sāmoa Career Connect, Mentor. Tafuna High School, Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School, Leone High School, Samoana High School, Faga’itua High School.

Secretariat. Second Meeting Two Samoa’s: Economic Integration Initiative. Sāmoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and American Sāmoa Governor Lolo Moliga. Tui Atua Tamasese Efi Government Building, Apia, Sāmoa.

Secretariat. Draft Outcomes, Trade Talks. Second Meeting Two Samoa’s: Economic Integration Initiative. Economic Integration Delegation. Tanoa Tusitala Hotel, Apia, Sāmoa.

Speaker and Panelist.  Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Utulei, American Sāmoa. Fale Laumei, Utulei, American Samoa.

Speaker. Secretariat of the Pacific Community.  Heads of Planning and Statistics. “Household income and expenditure survey, South-to-South partnerships.” Jacques Iékawé Conference Hall, Nouméa, New Caledonia.

Individual paper session, Sāmoa Conference II, National University of Sāmoa, Health and Political Governance Panel, “Pacific Insular Case: American Sāmoa -Does We the People, Include All Americans.” Le Papaigalagala campus, Vaivase, Sāmoa.