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Kahealani Acosta is a founder of ʻĀina Continuum, an agroforestry manager at MAʻO Organic Farms, and a lead advocate at Hawaii Food+ Policy. She has an M.A. in tropical plant and soil science from the University of Hawaii Manoa, where she studied indigenous cropping systems. She was born and raised in Campbell, Calif., in a family with Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Hispanic, and Native American (Chumash) origins. Acosta believes food is power and reclaiming our food system is how we reclaim self-governance and agency.