Lance D. Collins is an attorney in private practice on the island of Maui. He also holds a PhD in Political Science from the Univeristy of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He was the compiler and indexer of the seventeen-volume Proceedings of the Charter Commissions of the County of Maui (1966-2012). He coedited Tourism Impacts West Maui (2016) and Social Change in West Maui (2019). His research interests focus on the Philippines, Hawai‘i, American colonialism in the Pacific, and legal and political history.
Bianca K. Isaki is a writer, solo legal practitioner, and community activist who works on issues that intersect environmental justice and decolonization in Hawai‘i.
Originally from Canada, Brian Richardson earned doctorates in political science and philosophy from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His fields of research include eighteenth-century European exploration in the Pacific, European political philosophy, and information systems in higher education. He is the author of Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook’s Voyages Changed the World.