Leora (Lee) Kava is an Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands & Oceania Studies, housed within the department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. She is a poet and musician of mixed, Tongan descent, and dedicates her work to her family, community, students, and genealogies of creativity and liberation within and beyond Oceania. Some of her work can be found in The Hawaiʻi Review, Amerasia Journal, Academy of American Poets, and Orion Magazine with recordings on podcasts It’s Lit with PhDJ (based in Honolulu) and For The Qultures (based in the Bay Area).
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – Bringing our Youth Back to the Land
Speaker – Our Beautiful, Burning World
