Dawn Morais (who uses the byline Dawn Morais Webster for Civil Beat Community Voices) has called Hawaii home since 2001. Following a corporate career, she now provides communications counsel to nonprofits and teaches at the University of Hawaii. Her writing has appeared in local media, National Catholic Reporter, The Merton Seasonal, The Baltimore Sun, and Bamboo Ridge. A dissident Catholic, she worships at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Kalihi, host to Hawaii’s first Catholic Worker House.