The award is the first of its kind to lead, advocate for and implement training and resource development for Indigenous language education pathways in the U.S.
Kauaʻi seventh-grade student Lasaya Albite-Ruiz from Kapaʻa Middle School is the 2023 Kauaʻi grand prize winner in the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards.
Fifth grade student Rebecca Czar of the Carden Academy in Makawao is the Maui grand prize winner in the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Peace Poetry Awards.
A Ka’ū High School 10th grader, whose parents are Ukrainian refugees, won the grand prize in the 24th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poem Contest for the Big Island.