2021Nominee
Best Performance
This Is the Way We Rise
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Actor · Writer
Pālolo, Hawaii, USA
Biography
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet, activist and academic. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Osorio is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor, and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford (BA), and New York University (MA).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2019Winner
Best Performance
Like a Mighty Wave
2022Nominee
Best Performance
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
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On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)