Ep. 2 The Power of Storytelling with ‘Alisi Tulua

‘Alisi Tulua, M.S., is the Project Director for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) and the Data/Communications Lead for the Southern California Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response Team (SoCal PICRT). Systemically Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) in the United States (US) are hidden because data are often not collected or are reported in aggregate with other racial/ethnic groups, despite decades of calls to disaggregate NHPI data. As a form of structural racism, data omissions contribute to systemic problems such as inability to advocate, lack of resources, and limitations to political power.

Often we hear that generational trauma is passed down, but so is resilience. In this conversation, Tami Bui and Catt Phan explore intersectional power of storytelling and answer the question of ‘Alisi Tulua, M.S., is the Project Director for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) and the Data/Communications Lead for the Southern California Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response Team (SoCal PICRT). Systemically Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) in the United States (US) are hidden because data are often not collected or are reported in aggregate with other racial/ethnic groups, despite decades of calls to disaggregate NHPI data. As a form of structural racism, data omissions contribute to systemic problems such as inability to advocate, lack of resources, and limitations to political power.

Often we hear that generational trauma is passed down, but so is resilience. In this conversation, Tami Bui and Catt Phan explore intersectional power of storytelling and answer the question of “what do we pass down when we are made to feel invisible?”