{"id":97886,"date":"2019-06-05T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=97886"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T03:07:53","slug":"kalili-hawaiian-language-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/05\/kalili-hawaiian-language-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> alum works to bring Hawaiian language to the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_37006\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQi6GPikL2k?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Amy Kalili - UH Alumni Profile\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>When eight-year-old <strong>Amy Kalili<\/strong> and her family moved to Hilo, she had a southern twang and only a faint understanding of her Hawaiian identity. She never would have guessed that several years later she would be intimately involved in the Hawaiian language movement.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Kalili is known for her work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahapunanaleo.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo<\/a>, a nonprofit, family-based educational organization devoted to revitalization of the Hawaiian language. Most recently, she\u2019s recognized for her trailblazing work in bringing Hawaiian language to mainstream television.<\/p>\n<p>While her career has no doubt expanded over the years, her primary goal has remained the same&#8212;to promote and encourage the use of <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. Her undergraduate years at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> helped to lay the framework for her future work in education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97897\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Kalili\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/uh-foundation-alumni-kalili-a.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Kalili<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A conversation with her Hawaiian language teacher led to her first job at Hale <span aria-label=\"Kuamoo\">Kuamo&#699;o<\/span> Hawaiian Language Center. After graduating with her bachelor of arts and bachelor of <a href=\"http:\/\/business.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">business administration<\/a> from <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo, she went on to work for <span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo.<\/p>\n<p>Kalili later went on to receive her masters of business administration and juris doctor degree through the joint degree program offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/jd-mba\">Shidler College of Business<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/jdmba-joint-degree-program-0\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. She then returned to <span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo to serve as executive director.<\/p>\n<p>While at <span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo, Kalili was offered a unique opportunity to put Hawaiian language on mainstream television as part of Kamehameha Schools\u2019 2007 Song Contest broadcast on <abbr>KGMB<\/abbr>. Although she had no previous television broadcasting experience, the segments received overwhelmingly positive response.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I never thought I\u2019d be doing what I\u2019m doing now,&rdquo; says Kalili. &ldquo;I believe it\u2019s the foundation provided because of the work that I\u2019ve done in and around things <span aria-label=\"olelo\">&#699;&#333;lelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and <span aria-label=\"kuanaike,\">kuana&#699;ike,<\/span> our perspective-wise as a Hawaiian, that has really opened the doors for me for the things that I am doing career-wise.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Kalili is known for her work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahapunanaleo.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> P&#363;nana Leo<\/a>, a nonprofit, family-based educational organization devoted to revitalization of the Hawaiian language and for bringing Hawaiian language to mainstream television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,498,499,1057,154,146,271,319,14,9,56,68],"class_list":["post-97886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-business","tag-college-of-business-and-economics","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-law","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-alumni-association","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97895,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97886\/revisions\/97895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}