Welina mai,
a bit about me:

Alyssa ʻĀnela Purcell serves as an Archivist for the Kahoʻiwai Project at UH Hamilton Library and as Project Leader for the Hawaiian Ancestry – Moʻopono Project under Professor Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa. She holds a BA in Hawaiian Studies and an MLIS and is pursuing a PhD in Indigenous Politics. Her scholarship on decolonizing archival description earned the Global Engagement Award for Best Research in 2024, and she is a co-author of the Mellon-funded report Indigenous Librarianship: Practices of Agency and Abundance (2025). ʻĀnela serves on the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists’ board and in the Pacific and Indigenous Youth Caucuses of the United Nations. As an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellow and HPF Doctoral Award Recipient, her work centers ea and restoring community access to Hawaiian knowledge.