Originally from Waimea, Hawaiʻi, Emalani Case grew up in a small town immersed in the stories and histories of her place. Coupled with her life-long training in hula, or Hawaiian chant and dance, she thus learned to see her world—each landscape, seascape, and skyscape—as being ‘storied.’ This fuelled her passion for writing and studying literature, which eventually led to her BA and MA degrees in English; to her efforts to learn to speak, write, and translate ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language); and eventually, to her PhD work in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington where she continued to study stories, genealogies, and ancestral connections and obligations across Oceania. Emalani now shares her love of stories and histories as a Lecturer in Pacific Studies. As a Hawaiian woman, scholar, activist, blogger, and dancer, she is deeply engaged in issues of Indigenous rights and representation, dietary colonialism and food sovereignty, political independence, and environmental and social justice.