Fellows mentioned in this story: Josie Howard, Cohort VIII

From Civil Beat:

Hawai‘i’s criminal justice system isn’t immune to racial bias and the Judiciary is committed to addressing that racial inequity, Hawai‘i Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald said Friday. He spoke at a Zoom webinar, the first of a series of free virtual panels the Judiciary is hosting along with the Hawaii State Bar Association about achieving racial equity in Hawaii. Friday’s event focused on Black Lives Matter in Hawai‘i.

Friday’s panel featured Kristen Brown, the Hawai‘i NAACP youth chair, who helped organize last summer’s march, and Akiemi Glenn, who leads the Popolo Project, a nonprofit dedicated to telling stories of the Black community in Hawai‘i. The event also featured Kamaile Maldonado from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Josie Howard from We Are Oceania and included a discussion of the similarities between Black, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander experiences in Hawai‘i.

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