News & Commentary written by Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas

Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas is a CHamoru and Samoan daughter, poet-scholar, activist, and educator from Guåhan. She is pursuing her doctorate in Indigenous Politics at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and was awarded an inaugural Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship to support her research. Ha’åni serves as the Indigenous Relations and Communications Director of Famalao’an Rights, Guåhan’s only reproductive justice initiative, and associate producer of Deep Pacific, an Indigenous podcast uplifting the voices and stories of the Pacific.