Student Using Education to Perpetuate Hawaiian Culture

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A Hawaii girl is in business school at William & Mary in part to learn how to preserve and promote her native culture.

Lisa Noelani Robbins teaches hula and comes from a long line of Hawaiian quilters. She has been sharing this culture around the Mainland since 1986, but plans to return to the Isles in 2020 to work at a trust for Hawaiian children.

W&M’s Erin Zagursky reports the full story here. 

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