Haylee Makana Kushi awarded Nakanishi Prize
Haylee Makana Kushi is a scholar and leader who has advocated for her Hawai'ian community and for Native voices more broadly. An Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major who has studied settler colonialism in her home of Hawai’i, she has engaged and challenged the Yale community on issues of cultural appropriation, written about the experiences of American Indians and Pacific Islanders, and brought a global perspective on colonialism and indigeneity to the Native American Cultural Center. As the President of the Association of Native Americans at Yale, Haylee revived the Yale Powwow after a ten-year dormancy, establishing it as an annual event, and hosted the Henry Roe Cloud Alumni Conference, bringing generations of Native alumni back to Yale. After graduation, she will pursue a Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown. For these contributions, and for her commitment to this community, Yale College is honored to bestow the Nakanishi Prize upon Haylee Makana Kushi.
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