A YEAR OF POSSIBILITIES

Tuesday October 11, 11:30- 12:45 HST

Opening Keynote 

Manulani Aluli Meyer 

Witnessing, Love, Joy: a (K)new Evaluation Philosophy

 Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer is the fifth daughter of Emma Aluli and Harry Meyer who grew up on the shorelines of Mokapu, Kailua and Hilo Palikū. She is part of a larger Aluli ʻohana dedicated to Hawaiian cultural revitalization in all forms with aloha/pono as the animating essence of this revival. She is a world-wide scholar, writer, speaker, and evaluator grateful to exist in the kamamalu of Indigenous epistemology. Her background is within wilderness education, coaching, ʻāina-based education, food sovereignty, and teaching at UH Hilo, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, and now at UH West Oahu. She earned her Ed.D. on the topic of Hawaiian Epistemology from Harvard in 1998. She is a haku hoʻoponopono and a cultural practitioner of ʻike kupuna thrilled and humbled to be living on the mauka lands of Palehua here on Oʻahu moku.  

THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 11:30-12:45  HST

CLOSING KEYNOTE

VERONICA OLAZABAL

Veronica Olazabal is Chief Impact and Evaluation Officer at The BHP Foundation, President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her professional background ranges ~20 years and four continents and includes designing, implementing and leading global programs, research and evaluation for The Rockefeller and MasterCard Foundations. Veronica has served on various funding and advisory boards including most recently with The World Benchmarking Alliance and the World Bank's Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR). She is the recipient of several industry awards and has published in the American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation, and the Stanford Social Innovations Review. Ms Olazabal holds a B.A. in Communications and a masters degrees in Urban Policy and Planning from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University.