Kepoʻo Keliʻipaʻakaua is a Native Hawaiian PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His PhD research examines intersections between Indigenous Planning, Food Systems Planning, and Wahi Kūpuna Stewardship (WKS, previously known as cultural resource management). He received his MA in Hawaiian Studies in 2021, his BA in Hawaiian Studies, and BA in Hawaiian Language in 2015 from Hawaiʻinuiākea at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He has been working with Nohopapa Hawaiʻi and Huliauapaʻa for over 10 years as a project lead, researcher, field assistant, alakaʻi, and program instructor on various Wahi Kūpuna Stewardship projects across the pae ʻāina, from Hawaiʻi Island to Papahānaumokuākea. He is the Board President of the non-profit organization Kahaluʻu Kūāhewa which is responsible for the restoration of a 350-acre intact portion of the ancestral Kona field system on the Island of Hawaiʻi. He is also a Graduate Assistant at the Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders, where he researches Hawaiian Language source materials for information on elders and elder care.

Shelley Muneoka is a Kanaka Maoli woman from Heʻeia Uli on the island of Oʻahu. She is the Program Coordinator for Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders funded by the Administration for Community Living. Shelley received an MSW from the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Hawaii in 2009 and has a particular interest in indigenous community and intergenerational healing. Much of Shelley's life's work focuses on the care of elders, past, present, and future, both human and more-than-human. She is involved in a number of different advocacy efforts for ancestral places and practices that make Hawaiʻi unique. Shelley has had the privilege of connecting with and caring for kūpuna over the years and believes in the power of learning and passing on their stories.

Kathryn L. Braun, DrPH, is Professor of Public Health and Social Work and Barbara Cox Anthony Endowed Chair of Aging at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She directs the Hā Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders, the Professional Development Core for the PIKO Center for Translational Research, and the Investigator Development Core of the Ola HAWAII Research Center in Minority Institutions. She also is Graduate Chair for the PhD in Public Health program, teaching courses in research methods. She is a past winner of a Board of Regents medal for teaching excellence and the Peter V Garrod Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award from the University of Hawai‘i. She is current President of the Active Aging Consortium Asia-Pacific, a former Peace Corps Volunteer (the Philippines), and a former Fulbright Scholar (South Korea). She also is a Fellow with the Gerontological Society on Aging and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.