[2][4] She then pursued a Juris Doctor degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, graduating in 1992.
[2][6] She has also worked on efforts to repatriate artifacts taken from Indigenous groups, alongside her partner, Eddie Ayau.
[3][4][7][8] With Heather Giugni, Kahanu co-directed and co-produced the 2010 documentary film Under a Jarvis Moon, which told the stories of the young Hawaiian men sent by the U.S. government to secretly colonize Howland, Jarvis, and Baker Islands in the Pacific before World War II.
[2][9][10][11] The film had its origins in a 2002 exhibition at the Bishop Museum, "Hui Panalāʻau: Hawaiian Colonists, American Citizens.
[1] She has also published works of poetry, including pieces written in Hawaiian Pidgin, as well as the children's book Raven and the Sun: Echoing Our Ancestors.