Stanton Enomoto, Senior Program Director for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Native Hawaiian Relations

Stanton Enomoto worked for the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission from 1995-2004 during the US Navy’s unexploded ordnance clearance project on the island and oversaw the transfer of access control to the State of Hawaiʻi. He received his bachelor’s degree in Geology and Environmental Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was raised on Maui and graduated from the Kamehameha Schools.

Stanton has spent nearly the entirety of his 30-year career in public service focusing on environmental, natural & cultural resource management, planning, and Native Hawaiian issues. In addition to his current position and past work on Kahoʻolawe, he has worked for the US National Park Service, the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority, and the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.

Michael Nahoʻopiʻi, Executive Director, Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission

Michael has been involved with Kahoʻolawe from virtually every perspective in its recent history. A long-time Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO) member and former US Navy Officer-in-Charge of Kahoʻolawe during the conveyance of the island to the State of Hawaiʻi, he was a senior manager during the early Model Cleanup and the later Navy Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) clearance project.

Born in Honolulu, Michael graduated from the Kamehameha Schools in 1982. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis and was commissioned an ensign in 1986, serving as a nuclear-trained submarine officer until his assignment to Kahoʻolawe. In 1992, he received an MBA in accounting from Chaminade University. Michael is certified as a Quality Manager and Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality, and holds the designation of Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute.

Davianna McGregor, Director of the Center for Oral History, Ethnic Studies Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and member of the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO)   

Davianna is a professor and historian of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific and a founding member of the Ethnic Studies Department at UH Mānoa. She teaches courses on Native Hawaiians, Land Tenure and Use, and Economic Change in Hawaiʻi. She has been a member of the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO) since its founding in 1976, serving as a steward and helping to coordinate cultural field work on the island. She is director of the Molokaʻi Land Trust seeking to protect and restore the land and natural and cultural resources of Molokaʻi to perpetuate the island’s unique Native Hawaiian traditions.

Davianna’s work focuses on the persistence of traditional Hawaiian cultural customs, beliefs, and practices. She wrote the book Nā Kuaʻaina: Living Hawaiian Culture (UH Press, 2007), which won the Kenneth W. Balridge Prize for best book in any field of history written by a resident of Hawaiʻi 2005–2007. Davianna is a graduate of UH Mānoa, where she earned her bachelor’s degrees in Asian/Pacific History and Secondary Education, a master’s degree in Pacific Islands Studies, and doctorate in Hawaiian/Pacific History.