Fellows mentioned in this story:
Josie Howard
Yunji de Nies
From Hawai‘i News Now:
Here in Hawaiʻi, Josie Howard is best known as the force behind We Are Oceania — but her journey begins on a tiny atoll far from these shores.
“I grew up by the ocean, put to sleep by the sound of the wave and woke up in the morning by the pounding sound of the wave on the reef. Life was very simple. There is no electricity, there is no running water. We live off the land and in the middle of the ocean,” she explains.
Coming to Hawaiʻi from Onoun, an atoll in Micronesia, in the 1990s brought both possibility and dislocation.
“When I first came to Hawai‘i, I realized people didn’t know Micronesia,” she recalls. “I felt very homesick, you know, when I first came.”
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