Kamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation for the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation for University of Hawai’i System.  

Born and raised in Wai’anae, Kamuela comes from a family of cultural practitioners and farmers committed to using ancestral frameworks as the basis for contemporary restorative socio-ecological work. Kamuela has an undergraduate degree in Hawaiian Studies and a M.A in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 

Kamuela previously served as Director of Social Enterprise at MA‘O Farms and was also a Commissioner on President Obama’s White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.