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Norma Wong will be speaking with students in FYS 70: Land Stories: Place, Policy, and Power and FYS 75: Critical Environmental Justice about indigenous worldviews of environment and nature and strategies for change.
Norma Wong (Norma Ryuko Kaweloku Wong Roshi) is a Native Hawaiian and Hakka life-long resident of Hawai'i. She is an 86th generation Zen Master, having trained at Daihonzan Chozenji for over 40 years. In earlier years, Wong served as a Hawai'i state legislator, on the policy and strategy team for Governor John Waihee with federal and Native Hawaiian portfolios. She led teams to negotiate agreements on the munitions cleanup of Kaho'olawe Island, ceded land revenue for Native Hawaiians, and the return of lands and settlement of land issues for Hawaiian Home Lands. She facilitated and transformed policy and governance conflicts over the construction of a telescope on Mauna Kea, in the protection of the aquifer from fuel contamination at Red Hill, and the long-term response to the Lahaina wildfires. Her first book, was published November 2024.
Norma is part of the community of practice.
