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Noa Lincoln

Noa Kekuewa Lincoln is kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) and kama’aina (native born) to Kealakekua on Hawai’i Island. His childhood included unique training by Hawaiian elders in la’au lapa’au (ethnobotany) and traditional management methods for agriculture and ocean resources. Dr. Lincoln completed his formal training at Yale University (ʻ03) in Environmental Engineering and Stanford University (ʻ13) in Biogeochemistry and Social Ecology. He has worked and studied across the Pacific Rim in California, Costa Rica, Brazil, New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Marquesas, among other places. Much of his applied training through mentorship has focused on the installation of cultural values into management systems, often through the development of multiple bottom line assessment tools.

He is now an Associate Professor with a focus on Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems, in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and the PI of the Indigenous Cropping Systems Laboratory. He is the President and founder of Māla Kalu‘ulu Cooperative, a demonstration farm restoring traditional agroforestry methods in the kalu‘ulu breadfruit system of South Kona. He is the production advisor and a board member of the Hawai‘i ʻUlu Producers Cooperative, a farmer-owned business focused on the mid-tier value chain of several indigenous crops, including breadfruit. He is the co-founder and Vice Chair of the community-based organization that owns and operates the Amy BH Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, which preserves rare native Hawaiian plants as well as traditional crop varieties. He sits on numerous boards of community-based non-profits, such as ʻAina Momona and Ulu Mau Puanui, and governmental advisory boards, such as the Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry Council. He’s also an avid photographer, gardener, and fisherman.