Peter R. Mills is a Professor of Anthropology & Director of the Heritage Management MA Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Mills has been teaching at UH Hilo since 1997, and received the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001. He started his anthropological training at the University of Vermont (B.A. 1984), where he wrote an honor’s thesis on stone tools found in the Champlain Valley. He completed his M.A. at Washington State University (1987), studying use-wear on stone axes from Sand Canyon Pueblo Ruin in southwestern Colorado.

Douglas C. Wilson has served as an archaeologist for the National Park Service for over 20 years and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Portland State University since 2004. He has also worked in the Cultural Resources Management industry as a project archaeologist, principal investigator, and business owner. His doctorate is from the University of Arizona and his interests include the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest, colonialism and identity, and public and community archaeology.

Mara Mulrooney is Principal and Senior Archaeologist with Pacific Legacy. Mulrooney co-directed field projects on Hawai‘i Island, completed her Ph. D. focusing on landscape archaeology on Rapa Nui in 2012, and has collaborated on research projects in Hawai‘i and New Zealand. Since 2013, Mulrooney has been an adjunct faculty staff member at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she has taught Hawaiian Archaeology and facilitated internships for students. She has served as the President of the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology from 2020-2024.

Seth Quintus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He joined the UH faculty in 2016 as a Pacific Island Archaeologist. His research centers on Polynesia and explores the relationship between communities and their environments. This research often involves learning about agricultural communities in the past and how they handled changing environmental and social conditions. Quintus seeks to apply the outcomes of this research to address issues around resource management, especially food systems, in Hawaiʻi today.

Summer Roper Todd is the Cultural Resource Program Manager, Supervisory Archeologist and Section 106 Coordinator for Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park where she has worked for over 20 years. Roper Todd obtained her undergraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and her graduate degree in Applied Archaeology and Historic Preservation from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her park service career has led her to contribute on a wide range of cultural resource projects in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park as well as assist other Pacific Islands Parks in the protection and preservation of cultural resources.

Nicole Mello is Hawai‘i Island Lead Archaeologist with the Hawai‘i State Historic Preservation Division.

Kiersten Faulkner is the chief executive of Historic Hawai‘i Foundation and oversees all aspects of its preservation programs, strategic planning, business lines and operational matters. She holds a Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP).