Team

To Empower Community Voices and Enrich the Historical Perspectives of Kohala.

Jocelyn Manuel

Jocelyn was born and raised in Kohala and founded Kohala Oral History Project. Passionate about preserving Kohala's history, she manages KOHP's fundraising efforts and oversees the project's operations.

Bryan Campbell

Bryan is the primary instructor for our education programs. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and motion graphics designer and is a Lecturer in the Department of Creative Media at Hawai‘i Community College.

Maria Biber-Ferro

Maria is a co-instructor for our education programs. She writes, directs, and shoots narrative films and collaborates with artists, fashion designers, and storytellers on lifestyle pieces, documentary style content, and oral histories. Maria holds an MFA in Directing from The Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

Lucas Manuel-Scheibe

Lucas co-founded KOHP with his mom, Jocelyn. He was the primary videographer and interviewer for the first set of kūpuna stories that the project recorded, which ultmately became the "This is Kohala" film. Lucas is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a filmmaker in New York.

Advisory Board

Connie Chun Community Member

Boyd Davis Local Historian

Carolyn Classen Community Member

Kathleen Matsuda Kohala Resilience Hub Coordinator

Micah Mizukami Associate Director, Center for Oral History, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa

Nicole Garcia Executive Director, Honoka‘a Heritage Center

Joël Tan Executive Director, Wing Luke Museum