![image of Chris Lucas](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/322/original.jpg?1666135472)
Chris Lucas Chair
Interests: Leadership theories and models, Professional development, Student affairs; Higher Education
![image of Ethan Chang](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/821/original.jpg?1661980176)
Ethan Chang Assistant Professor
Interests: Collaborative Community-Based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Organizations, Learning
Walter Kahumoku Associate Professor
Interests: Indigenous and Hawaiian Culture Based Education, Public Policy impacting the education of Native learners, Indigenous-Aboriginal-Native Leadership, History of Education in Hawaiʻi, Indigenous-Aboriginal-Native Research Methodologies
![image of Nicole Reyes](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/398/original.jpg?1569369411)
Nicole Reyes Associate Professor
Interests: Higher Education, Issues of Indigeneity, Faculty and Students of Color, Minority Serving Institutions, Qualitative Research Methods
![image of Derek Taira](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/400/original.jpg?1574136538)
Derek Taira Associate Professor
Interests: politics of education; 20th century social and cultural American History; History of American Education; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; History of Territorial Hawaiʻi; Settler Colonialism
![image of Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright](https://kudos.coe.hawaii.edu/attachments/kapa/persons/photos/000/000/325/original.jpg?1560217904)
Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright Associate Professor
Interests: Native Hawaiian Higher Educational Journeys, Indigenous Student Success; Higher Education