TANYA LEE-GREIG ʻĀINA ARCHAEOLOGY

ʻĀina Archaeology is a Native Hawaiian, wāhine-owned firm that has been part of the Līpoa community for nearly a decade. Over the years, their team has grown, bringing cultural knowledge and archaeological expertise to work that preserves and honors the history of...

LILIANA ROYER

Meet Liliana Royer! She is a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate who turned a summer internship into a career right here at Līpoa. While in college, Liliana began an internship with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaiʻi, where she was introduced to...

JAXSON PAHUKALA

Meet Jaxson Pahukala. Like many students from Hawaiʻi, Jaxson thought he’d have to leave home to build a career in technology. A graduate of Kamehameha Schools Maui and Purdue University, he spent two summers interning with organizations at Līpoa. Those...

DOMINIC MANZANO

When Dominic Manzano graduated from Lahainaluna High School in 2020, he never imagined he’d soon be helping build technology that surveys space from locations around the world. Today, the Lahaina native works as an electronics engineer at Maui-based aerospace company...

AYLA REED

Growing up on Molokaʻi, Ayla Reed was often told that pursuing big dreams meant leaving home behind. Today, U.S. Air Force Maj. Ayla Reed is proving otherwise. As Chief Engineer at Maui’s High Performance Computing Center, Reed works at the forefront of space domain...

BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS 

It was always the vision that Līpoa would help nurture not only Maui’s expanding technology and innovation industries, but also the next generation of homegrown innovators to someday work here. But a generation ago when it was all being planned, no one could have...