Hawaii Storytellers: A Letter To Our Hapa Daughters

Mark Noguchi and Amanda Corby Noguchi share how the love for their community brought them together.

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Mark “Gooch” Noguchi was born and raised in Manoa and his wife Amanda Corby Noguchi was born and raised in Missouri. Mark is a chef and the Food & Sustainability Curriculum Specialist at Punahou School. Amanda founded the event and communications company, Under My Umbrella. Together they founded Pili Group. In this video they read letters to their daughters about their different roots.

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