The authors would like to thank all the REMS instructors and staff for their efforts to empower Hawai‘i students, especially Mackenzie Manning, Yoshimi Rii, Sherril Leon Soon, Jeremy Soriano, Kelvin Gorospe, Hoaka Thomas, and Alexi Meltel. We also sincerely thank the students of REMS for allowing us to share in their experiences. We are grateful for the many discussions on culturally based education research with Margie Maaka, Liana Wong, and Summer Maunakea, and science-based education research with members of CC Bio INSITES community of National Science Foundation. Finally, we thank the Hau‘oli Mau Loa Foundation for their generous support of the REMS program, Lisa Corwin and Jeff Schinske of the CC Bio INSITES initiative for their generous support of this manuscript publication, and the STAR Achievement Scholarship and University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa COE General Scholarship which supported exploration into our students’ experiences.
