INTRODUCING GINA MCGUIRE

Gina McGuire is a Native Hawaiian - Polish writer and ecologist, born and raised on Hawaiʻi Island. She is a student of lāʻau lapaʻau, Hawaiian medicine and holds a PhD in Geography & the Environment as well as two master's in Tropical Conservation Biology & Environmental Science and Creative Writing. Gina just finished her tenure as a Tribal Agriculture Fellow and is the winner of the 2022 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award. She was recognized for her servant leadership by the Stanford University Centers for Equity, Community, & Leadership changemakers program and was made the Native Climate research fellow with the Desert Research Institute's Native Climate project in 2024. She is passionate about relationship to place and the role of culture in caring for land and sea. She has several academic articles in press including pieces on sea salt gathering as a form of stewardship and knowing place, the role of culture in caring for coastal groves of Pandanus trees, and the use of Hawaiian medicinal practice to understand and steward landscapes. She has several creative works published including short stories and poetry with Grist, the Yellow Medicine Review, Native Climate, the Chapter House's But When You Come from Water exhibit, and in the Trouble the Waters anthology. Her research and her work is dedicated to the protection and care of Indigenous lands and peoples.