Prof. Uahikea Maile is a Kānaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Maunawili, Oʻahu. He is assistant professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Maile’s research interests include: history, law, and activism on Hawaiian sovereignty; Indigenous critical theory; settler colonialism; political economy; feminist and queer theories; and decolonization. In Gifts of Sovereignty: Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Politics in Hawaiʻi (forthcoming, Duke University Press), Maile examines the historical development and contemporary formation of settler colonial capitalism in Hawai’i and gifts of sovereignty that seek to overturn it by issuing responsibilities for balancing relationships with ‘āina, the land and that who feeds. He was Founding Director of Ziibiing Lab at UofT, which continues to be one of our Collaboratory’s kindred-guides. He brings his generosity of spirit and deep transcultural relations as our consulting fellow and research collaborator on upcoming programs in anticarceral, anti-imperialist, and community-centred initiatives organized with and around Black and Indigenous relations and political-aesthetic convergences at sea and otherwise.