C. Malina Kaulukukui, MSW,

C. Malina Kaulukukui, MSW, retired from the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa in 2015, where she focused on behavioral health and cultural programming for MSW students. She recently completed a three-year federally-funded project teaching the cultural practice of hoʻoponopono to interested Native Hawaiian residents. She currently assists the University of Hawai’iʻs John A. Burns School of Medicineʻs Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence to develop and implement cultural immersion programs for medical students and residents. She is a haku ho’oponopono – a ho’oponopono practitioner, who ‘unikiʻd – graduated - from Likeke and Lynette Paglinawan, who themselves were mentored by Tutu Mary Kawena Pukui. Kumu Malina also teaches this family-based culturall practice to others who want to become traditional ho’oponoono practitioners. She has been dancing hula all of her adult life and is a respected kumu hula, with a halau – a hula school - in Kaka’ako. Since her retirement, Kumu Malina has been teaching hula at the womenʻs prison, using her professional background in substance abuse treatment and trauma-informed care to help prisoners embrace hula as a cultural “tool” to effect healing.