Lia “Bear” Kim is from the ahupuaʻa (land division) of Hauʻula, on the moku (district) of Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu. A graduate of the Agripharmatech program at Windward Community College, she is currently a third-year undergraduate at Stanford University in California studying sustainable food and agriculture. She is also the biocultural diversity coordinator at Asia Pacific International School, co-directing a culturally-relative agricultural program.