Workshop Facilitation

Kevin has an extensive background in workshop development and facilitation spanning from their days volunteering in high school through their current work as a community organizer.

Kevin works to represent and acknowledge their predecessors in all their workshops, primarily focusing on the intersections of their identities as they relate to global issues. Kevin’s work seeks to affirm and uplift people within their community that do no always have access to share their voices.

Examples of Workshops Kevin has developed include:

  • Anti-Blackness, Identity, & Solidarity in Oceania

  • Climate Justice Solidarity

  • The Legacy of Militarization in American Samoa

  • Climate Change & Arts Leadership

  • Our Roots: Indigenous Queer Ecology

  • Introduction to Pasifika Climate Work

  • Introduction to Divestment from the Fossil Fuel Industry

Poetry Performances

Kevin’s poetry journey began in 2019, while attending a Pacific Climate Warriors in Djab Wurrung territory (colonially, North Parramatta, Australia). With support from their community, Kevin found an emerging voice in poetry as a new avenue for their activism.

Kevin has performed poetry at large rallies including a Rally for Mauna Kea at UC Berkeley in 2019 and most recently, The Parable for the Movement hosted by The Black Hive in New York City.

Kevin was a resident poet for Aya De Leon’s Poetry for the People course at UC Berkeley in 2020 and participated as a feature poet in their Black Literature vs. The Climate Emergency event in 2021.

In November of 2021, Kevin was one of three featured artists from the state of Oregon in The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America series.

Kevin is currently developing a poetry blog on this site and has plans to begin participating in poetry competitions in 2024.

Keynotes & Panels

Kevin comes from a lineage of orators and has been public speaking nearly their entire life. The short film on the home page, Matagi Malohi features a speech that Kevin gave at the Global Climate Strikes in Portland in 2019.

Kevin has been blessed with the opportunity to talk story in many spaces including panel engagements with the Portland Trail Blazers Foundation, UTOPIA Washington and UTOPIA Portland, the Pacific Climate Warriors, 350.org, and Portland State University.

Kevin is also a former forensics competitor that has competed and won several high-level tournaments including a Gold Award at the Phi Rho Pi National Championships in 2017 alongside their debate partner, Tyler Garcia. Kevin’s experiences competing in NPDA debate, IPDA debate, poetry interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, and informative speaking have helped them to develop a passionate, professional, and personable approach to oration.

Features & Interviews