Board MembersMargaret J. Niuli’i Heine – President
Napali Woode – Treasurer Karlen Porter – Director/Merchandise Chairman Pua Higa – Director/Scholarship Chairman ʻAuliʻi Hirahara - Director Vernon Viernes - Director If you would like to join the club, please email tianad79@gmail.com. MISSION STATEMENT Papaku no Kameha’ikana encourages and enables families to understand and live and practice Hawaiian values and cultural traditions. VISION Hawaiian values (Akahai, Lokahi, ‘Olu’olu, Ha’aha’a, ‘Ahonui) and cultural traditions are learned, lived, and passed on within families for all future generations. STRATEGIES We plan, organize and coordinate Native Hawaiian activities for families that promote cultural practices. These activities include community service and educational events that perpetuate cultural protocol. Participants are encouraged to share and reciprocate with others including people throughout Polynesia. Goal - Teach cultural protocol to connect people to their piko and their ea in order to nurture their mauli ola Vision - have each member have a better understanding of balance through the virtues of ALOHA. 
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Margaret J. Niuli’i Heine - President
Niuli’i is a Native Hawaiian, graduate of The Kamehameha Schools, and received her Business Management Degree at Chaminade University. She lives on Hawaiian Home Lands in Waimanalo. Niuli’i is an Assistant Vice President at First Hawaiian Bank. Niuli’i has danced hula for over 30 years for Na Pua Lei O Likolehua, recently graduated in 2009 as a Kumu Hula (hula teacher) and is now teaching in the halau. She is actively involved in outrigger canoe paddling with over 30 years of experience as a paddler and coach.
Napali Woode - Treasurer/Grant Writer
Napali is Native Hawaiian and a long-time resident of Ewa. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame and has decades of financial and administrative experience in various industries, including the nonprofit
sector. Having grown up all over the world, Napali is intent on learning about Hawaiian culture in all its forms and serves on several Native Hawaiian organizations’ boards. Karlen Porter – Director, Merchandise Chairman
Karlen is a Native Hawaiian graduate of the Class of 1996 from Kamehameha Schools and because of a volleyball scholarship is also a graduate of Chaminade University Class of 2000. Karlen is from and currently resides in Manoa. She is the PACS Administrator at Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children. Karlen’s favorite responsibility is being an aunty. When she is not having fun at hula or paddling she loves relaxing with her family (including her German shepherd retriever Della) and friends.
Dr. Puanani Higa – Director/Scholarship Chairman
Puanani is a wife and mother to three beautiful keiki. Her ʻohana comes from ʻUalapuʻe, Molokaʻi; Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi Island; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She resides in Nuʻuanu and is the eldest of 5 siblings. Her interests include hula, singing, traveling, and photography. Pua is a graduate of The Kamehameha Schools, Loyola Marymount University (BA English), University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa (MEdT), and the University of Southern California (EdD). Currently, Dr. Higa is the high school Coordinator of Curriculum & Instruction at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama
ʻAuliʻi Hirahara – Director
‘Auli’i is one of the founders of Papakū no Kāmeha’ikana. She graduated from Kamehameha Schools Kapālama. She received her Bachelors degree in Business Administration and her Master’s degree in Education from Hawai’i Pacific University. She is a teacher at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama, and she lives at Kalawahine Hawaiian Homestead. ‘Auli’i danced hula from age five with Kumu Hula Maiki Aiu Lake, and she also danced hula from her mother Kumu Hula Leinā’ala Kalama Heine intermittently from age nine to her adult life with Hālau Na Pua Lei O Likolehua. She graduated as kumu hula in 2018 from her sister Kumu Hula Niuli’i Heine. ‘Auli’i opened her hālau, Nā Pua ‘Āhihi Lehua Mai Pihanakalani, in 2021. She canoe paddled for 25 years, and she learned ‘ike Hawai’i from her Tutu Rebecca Pai‘āina Kalama and her mother.
Vernon Viernes – Director
Vernon Viernes was born on O’ahu, and he currently works at Ke Ola Mamo as a Kū Ola Kāne Program Manager. Vernon also worked with Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Center for over 10 years. He assisted with sponsoring Papakū no Kāmeha’ikana workshops at the QLCC Honolulu unit from years 2012 - 2019. He continues to honor Queen Liliuokalani by sharing her stories to our Papakū no Kāmeha’ikana members. Vernon is farmer, and he nurtures his kalo lo’i located at Kako’o ‘Oiwi in Kaneohe every Saturday mornings. Vernon continues to give back by attending different community service projects.
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