Perspectives of Indigenous Bridges

  Leiven Hwang Leiven Hwang established the organization's Hawaii office at the beginning of 2023. A fusion of master planner, building and interior designer, product designer, entrepreneur, dancer, and teacher, Leiven's professional mission is to create spaces, both physical and virtual, and impact lives to transform and heal people and planet. He has helped guide people from all over the world in their transformation and growth, both 1-on-1 and in group programs, in-person and online, supporting them in cultivating their vitality, leadership, and relationship skills, navigating the challenges in their lives, and using those challenges as fuel for growth. Leiven also supports couples looking for greater intimacy and to deepen their connection with each other, communicate in more grounded, accepting ways, and to transmute whatever conflicts that do arise into deeper and more expansive love.

  Wennifer Lin Haver, PhD Wennifer received her masters and doctoral degrees from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department at UCLA. She specializes in women's birthing/healing traditions as expressed through indigenous and emergent ritual art and earth-based ontology.  Her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Birth Art and the Art of Birthing: Creation and Procreation on the 'Aina of Tutu Pele" (2008), is an interdisciplinary, diachronic, and multivocal study that draws from folklore, medical anthropology, cultural studies, eco-feminism, archaeomythology, spiritual midwifery, and female shamanism. Wennifer has published on folk and alternative medicine and conducted fieldwork in Hawai'i and Los Angeles. In 1999-2002, she was part of a National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine study on Latino health systems with her mentor, renowned medical folklorist, Dr. Michael Owen Jones.  Within the past decade, she has actively shared her research in a number...