She is the inaugural Queen Liliʻuokalani Distinguished Professor in Native Hawaiian Culture at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Antonio was born and raised in Wahiawa, Hawaii in a Native Hawaiian family.
[3] Antonio is a scholar on the health and well-being of Native Hawaiians and indigenous peoples.
[1] In 2018, she became an assistant professor in the department of human nutrition, food and animal sciences, in the college of tropical agriculture and human resources and the office of public health studies in the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the UH Mānoa.
[1] In August 2023, she was appointed to the inaugural endowed Queen Liliʻuokalani Distinguished Professorship in Native Hawaiian Culture.