Noelani Arista

[1] Arista's education includes mentorship and training through Hawaiian kumu (teachers) Aunty Edith McKinzie, Rubellite Kawena Johnson, Kalani Akana, Manu Haokalani Gay, Pomaka'i Gaui, and John Keolamaka'ainanakalahuiokalaninokamehamehaʻekolu Lake.

[14] Arista's first book, The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States, relates the experience of native Hawaiian encounters with colonialism during the early- to mid-nineteenth century.

Daily posts were curated to expand public knowledge of 'aloha' beyond the tropes promoted by popular consumerist culture which simplify the term as a translation of 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I love you'.

While much of Arista's work has focused on the early nineteenth-century movement of aural-oral moʻolelo, authoritative speech, and performative literature into written and published text, she has recently shifted to the perpetuation and persistence of Hawaiian knowledge into digital media.

As such, Arista is a knowledge-keeper and contributor to “He Au Hou 1 & 2” ("A New World"), two Hawaiian-language video games that were produced in 2017 & 2018 through a joint collaboration between Initiative for Indigenous Futures and Kanaeokana.