[1] By virtue of her father's job, Osorio grew up around renowned scholars, creatives and activists, such as Haunani-Kay Trask and Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa, and was further inspired by the vision of wāhine they evoked.
[1] Osorio graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 2008,[2][3] and from Stanford University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
In 2017 Osorio received a Ford Foundation Fellowship,[4] and in 2018, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy with her dissertation entitled, “(Re)membering ʻUpena of Intimacies: A Kanaka Maoli Moʻolelo Beyond Queer Theory.”[5] Osorio's research centred primarily around the Hawaiian Goddess Hi'iakaikapoliopele, who had an intimate female friend and lover, Hopoe.
[12] At the first ever White House Poetry Jam in 2009,[13][14] an 18-year-old Osorio performed a poem she wrote entitled "Kumulipo" before Barack Obama and the First Family.
[26] Her poems ‘He Mana Kō ka Leo' and "Kumulipo" have been presented as an example of how the next generation of artists is giving voice to the Hawaiian nation.