Keeping Keiki Safe From The School-To-Prison Pipeline - Honolulu Civil Beat Investment in Native Hawaiian-focused education comes at a far less cost than incarceration. About the Author Eomailani Kukahiko is a Native Hawaiian from Waimanalo, Oahu with four children. She is a faculty member in the Curriculum Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where her work focuses on Hawaiian education. Those in Hawaii who think that the kind of violence that occurs on the “mainland” doesn’t happen here should take note of two shooting deaths of males of color — Iremamber Sykap (April 5) and Lindani Myeni (April 14) — last month. That reminds us that we are not immune.