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H-PEA Post-conference In-Person Workshop Day
Friday September 18, 2026
at Kokua Kalihi Valley Hoʻoulu ʻĀina
3659 Kalihi St, Honolulu, HI 96819
We invite you to join us for a special day of learning, reflection, and connection at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a 100-acre nature preserve nestled in the back of Kalihi Valley on Oʻahu. Cared for by Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, Hoʻoulu ʻĀina offers a unique space where community, culture, health, and the natural environment come together.
As part of our H-PEA post-conference experience, participants will have the opportunity to learn in and from this living landscape while engaging with fellow evaluators and community members. We offer a one-day program featuring two workshops and a nourishing lunch. Please see below for additional details about each workshop. Together, we will explore how place, relationships, and community wisdom can inform and strengthen our evaluation practice.
Note: Parking space at the site is limited; we encourage carpooling as much as possible and will connect for further planning for parking.
TIME (HST) |
WORKSHOP - |
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9:00–12:00am |
Guided by Aloha, Co-Creating Evaluation with Community |
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12:00–1:00pm |
Lunch |
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1:00–4:00pm |
Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services |
H-PEA Post-Conference In-Person Workshops 2026 Registration Fees
- H-PEA/CREA-HI Members: $120 (full day including lunch and $20 H-PEA anniversary donation)
- Non-Members: $170.00 (Full day including lunch and $20 H-PEA anniversary donation)
To provide everyone the opportunity to come together, make connections, and build meaningful relationships with the ʻāina, each other and ourselves, we only offer full day participation.
Please see more details about the workshop day below.
H-PEA POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS |
9:00-12:00am (HST): Guided by Aloha, Co-Creating Evaluation with CommunityWorkshop Description |
Speaker Information
Katherine Tibbets
With over 40 years of experience conducting research and evaluation to promote Native Hawaiian wellbeing, she champions culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable evaluation practices. Her contributions to the development of the "Evaluation with Aloha" framework and the Kūkulu Kumuhana wellbeing framework exemplify her commitment to value-based approaches grounded in Native Hawaiian worldviews.
Within the American Evaluation Association (AEA), she co-founded the Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) and co-authored the seminal AEA Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation. She served as a member-at-large on the AEA Board from 2022-2024 and is the current AEA President-Elect. As a member of the 2018 AEA Guiding Principles Task Force, she made significant contributions to the strengthening of the statements related to Common Good, Equity, and Respect for People.
Pālama Lee
Pālama Lee’s kūpuna come from Molokaʻi, Kamalō and Maui, Kaupō and Lahaina. Most recently, Pālama has been blessed to work for the Liliʻuokalani Trust for 15 years. His research focuses on promoting Native Hawaiian wellbeing. He received his MSW and Ph.D. at UH Mānoa. The evenings find him doing homework with his son and bingeing Netflix.
Dawn Mahi
Aloha mai kakou. I am Dawn Mahi of Consuelo Foundation and CREA-Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, the second affiliate of Cultural Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA), formalized in 2016. CREA-HI is co-hosted by the Consuelo Foundation, and Liliʻuokalani Trust.
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1:00pm-4:00pm (HST): Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services (KKV) Workshop Description Rooted in the living landscape of Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a 100-acre nature preserve in Kalihi Valley, this workshop invites participants into a place-based learning experience that is both welcoming and rigorous. Drawing on Indigenous approaches to evaluation, the session centers ʻāina as teacher and measure, exploring how relationships to land and community reshape how we define success, accountability, and impact. Participants will engage in grounded inquiry that challenges conventional metrics and uplifts values such as reciprocity and collective well-being. The ʻĀina Accountability Framework, developed with The Kohala Center, centers kuleana and familial relationships to ʻāina within evaluation and related practices. Through guided activities and small-group dialogue, participants will co-create a collective story rooted in their own experiences and relationships while examining how place-informed values guide culturally responsive evaluation. Participants will explore how practices of remembrance, resilience, regeneration, and care can inform holistic measures of success, strengthen evaluation, and support healing across communities and systems. Participants will leave with a grounded understanding of ʻāina accountability and practical strategies for applying Indigenous, place-based approaches in their own contexts. |
Speaker Information
Megan Inada,
Doctor of Public Health and Research Director at Kōkua Kalihi Valley
Puni Jackson,
Cultural Practitioner and Director of Hoʻoulu