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The Social MānoaThe Social Mānoa with Dr. Eirik SaethreThis week we had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Eirik Saethre who is not only an Anthropology professor but also the Graduate Chair for The Department of Anthropology. He shares with us his adventures and life story that lead him to where he is today. He also gives some tips to students who wish to take his exciting classes!
Youtube link w/ captions: https://youtu.be/u_3S-wav-Is
IG: https://www.instagram.com/uhmcssambassadors/?hl=en2021-02-0439 min
The Social MānoaThe Social Mānoa with Aubrey ThomasIntroducing Aubrey Thomas! In this episode, she talks about what she experienced as a UH-Mānoa Political Intern and her current goals in her field.
Youtube video w/ captions: https://youtu.be/iBLWejoTwck
IG page: https://www.instagram.com/uhmcssambassadors/?hl=en2021-01-0922 min
The Social MānoaThe Social Mānoa with BananInterested in what it’s like to start a business? Want to know some marketing tips? How about ways to finance a company? Come join the official College of Social Sciences Ambassador's podcast (now a zoom meeting due to social distancing guidelines) called the Social Manoa. Our upcoming session is with the owner and founder, Matt Hong, of Banan! With the pandemic, local community businesses are now more important than ever. Find out how businesses like Banan have pivoted and innovated! Ambassadors of the College of Social Sciences will be asking a series of questions to Matt and if you'd li...2021-01-0947 min
The Social MānoaThe Social Mānoa- Christmas SpecialHappy holidays everyone! Here is a little segment where the ambassadors talk about their plans for Christmas and the upcoming year!
Youtube w/ captions: https://youtu.be/_HxIMiXpzUQ
IG: https://www.instagram.com/uhmcssambassadors/?hl=en2020-12-2453 min
The Social MānoaThe Social Mānoa with Dr. NakamuraInterested in what you can do with your psychology degree? Want to know what it's like to do research with it? Want to know what advisors look for in graduate applicants? Dr. Brad Nakamura from the UHM C-CBT Lab answers those questions with the Ambassadors so keep watching to find out!
Youtube video w/subtitles: https://youtu.be/HFUjwxw0l7s
IG page: https://www.instagram.com/uhmcssambassadors/?hl=en2020-12-1155 min
The Social MānoaSocial Mānoa Season 3 PodcastIt’s a new season! Introducing Sarah-Lyn Kaeo, Vanessa Liang, Bevin Martin, Cindy Ng, and Korynn Grenert!
You can find the Youtube captioned video here: https://youtu.be/AkF3lVE4GlM
Make sure to follow us on IG too! Link: https://www.instagram.com/uhmcssambassadors/2020-12-0441 min
The Social Mānoa14: eSports Gaming at UH MānoaIn this episode of The Social Mānoa, our hosts Cindy and Micah will be engaged in a talk-story discussion with Alan, who is an avid eSports player and a member of the Mānoa Academy of Gamers, and will be discussing the growing popularity of gaming as well as contemporary issues in video game culture.2020-04-2900 minThe Social Mānoa13: Miguel RenteriaMiguel Renteria is a first-generation undergraduate student double majoring in Psychology, Economics, and Political Science. Miguel is also an honorably discharged Corporal from the United States Army. In this episode of The Social Mānoa, Miguel will be sharing his experience as a Veteran, challenges Veterans may face, as well as advice for students interested in or seeking to join the U.S. armed forces.2020-04-2700 minThe Social Mānoa12: Landon LiLandon Li is a first-generation undergraduate student triple majoring in Psychology, Economics, and Political Science. He is also a distinguished alumnus of the Mānoa Political Internship Program, as well as the President of the 107th Senate of the Associated Students of the University of Hawai'i (ASUH) at Mānoa. In this episode of The Social Mānoa, Landon will be sharing his experience as a student and give insight, as well as recommendations, for students seeking to become a part of the student government at UH Mānoa.2020-04-2500 minThe Social Mānoa11: Extracurricular & Professional Opportunities at UH MānoaAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, many colleges and universities have a broad educational mission: to develop the "whole student." On college campuses, extracurricular involvement is a vital tool in this personal development. For the majority of college and university students, involvement in extracurricular activities plays an integral role in the collegiate experience. Students become involved in extracurricular activities not only for entertainment, social, and enjoyment purposes, but most importantly, to gain and improve their professional development in areas such as leadership and interpersonal development. In this episode of The Social Mānoa, our hosts Cindy and Micah share t...2020-03-0800 minThe Social Mānoa10: Welcome Back!Welcome back to The Social Mānoa Season 2. The Social Mānoa is a Hawaiʻi-based graduate/undergraduate student podcast that promotes the incredible intellectual and professional community that makeup Hawaiʻi's leaders in the social sciences.2020-02-1200 min
The Social Mānoa09: Joy EnomotoJoy Lehuanani Enomoto holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, with an archival focus and a second Masters in Pacific Islands Studies. Joy is born to an African American, Caddo Indian and Punjabi mother from Dallas, Texas; and to a Hawaiian, Japanese, Scottish father from Makawao, Maui. As a mixed media visual artist and social justice activist, her work engages with climate justice mapping, extractive colonialism, saltwater conversations that occur within the space of the diaspora, the policing of black and brown bodies, the Black Pacific, demilitarization and other issues currently affecting the peoples of Oceania. Her ar...2019-06-0600 minThe Social Mānoa08: Hawaiʻi State Representative Chris Lee (House District 51)In 2013 Chris stepped up to help lead the campaign to pass marriage equality in Hawaii. In spite of receiving a death threat for his public role as a spokesperson for the campaign, he fought on to help make Hawaii the 15th state to pass same-sex marriage. He then took on the fossil fuel industry and passed a law making Hawaii the first state to require all electricity to come from 100% renewable energy. When a mainland corporation proposed a $4.3 billion takeover of Hawaii’s utilities that would exploit local consumers, Chris built a coalition and led the opposition. Together, they overcame a...2019-05-2700 minThe Social Mānoa07: Colin MooreColin D. Moore is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Policy Center at the University of Hawai‘i. Prior to joining the faculty at UH, he served as a research fellow at Yale University’s Center for the Study of American Politics and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University.
Moore's scholarship focuses on American political development, public bureaucracies, health policy, and the historical analysis of institutional change. His research has appeared in the...2019-05-1900 minThe Social Mānoa06: Ty Kāwika TenganTy Kāwika Tengan entered the fields of anthropology and ethnic studies because he had many questions about the nature of Hawaiian culture and nationhood, and felt the best way to find these answers was through ethnographic (immersive, community-based) research and engagement. Born and partly raised on Army bases outside of Hawai‘i, Kumu Kāwika has spent most of his life in Hawai‘i and claims Maui as his one hānau (though presently he lives in Pālolo). He teaches generally on both precolonial and contemporary Hawaiian society, especially as it has been and continues to be transformed by Nativ...2019-05-1000 minThe Social Mānoa05: Lanakila MangauilLanakila is a Kanaka Maoli born and raised in Hāmākua, Honoka‘a, of Hawai‘i Island. Growing up in the forests of Ahualoa and down in Waipi‘o Valley, Lanakila was raised and able to learn from a wide range of different Hawaiian practitioners.
Lanakila graduated from Kanu O Ka `Āina NCPCS in 2004 and became a Hawaiian studies teacher with the DOE Kupuna/Mākua program providing local cultural education to Hawai‘i Public Schools. For nearly ten years he taught in public education and expanded to after-school programs, community classes, college classes, and international groups. Lanakila is a kiaʻi (pro...2019-04-2400 minThe Social Mānoa04: Patrick V. KirchPatrick V. Kirch (Ph.D.) is a rock star of anthropology. He has written many books detailing his research on Oceanic archaeology and anthropology, where he implements multiple complimenting disciplines to outline and track the footprints of the peoples of Oceania. His special interests are Oceanic prehistory and ethnography, settler archaeology, prehistoric agricultural systems, cultural ecology and paleoenviornmentalism, ethnobotany and ethnoscience, and the development of complex societies in Oceania.
Born on Oʻahu Hawaiʻi, Kirch was raised in the beautiful valley of Mānoa. As a young man, Kirch became an intern to Yoshio Kondo who was a Bishop Mus...2019-04-0700 minThe Social Mānoa03: David EnriquezDavid Enriquez is a UH Mānoa graduate with degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. Currently, David serves as a Legislative Aide in the Hawaiʻi State Legislature for State Representative Aaron Ling Johanson. David was a former Ambassador for the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the former President of Pi Sigma Alpha, Tau Pi Chapter, UH Mānoa Political Science Honor Society, and a Hawaiʻi Delegate for the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship Collegiate Student Congress. Join us as we "talk story" with this incredible young public servant and track his jo...2019-03-2600 minThe Social Mānoa02: Kaley VatalaroKaley Vatalaro is a young and incredibly talented political scientist who has been engrossed in public service for much of her undergraduate career at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Recently Kaley worked as an intern for Senator Brian Schatz in Washington DC. Currently, Kaylea works at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol in the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. Join us as she discussed her journey from Hawaiʻi to our nation's capitol through the Mānoa Political Internship Program.2019-03-2400 minThe Social Mānoa01: Heoli OsorioJamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a famed mana wahine scholar and assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. In our discussion, Heoli shares thoughts behind her dissertation "(Re) membering ‘Upena of Intimacies: A Kanaka Maoli Mo‘olelo Beyond Queer Theory” and how this ʻupena of intimacy is both unique and important in the Kanaka Maoli way of being.2019-03-2400 min