Kaleohano Farrant is a 2024 E. Gordon Grau Fellow with the North Shore Community Land Trust, a nonprofit organization caring for lands on the northern shores of Oʻahu. During the fellowship, he will coordinate the North Shore Trails project, which aims to expand the network of multi-use paths in the region through collaborations with community, corporate, and governmental partners. Kaleohano will also assist with Waialeʻe Lako Pono, an initiative to restore traditional Hawaiian agriculture and aquaculture in the ahupuaʻa of Waialeʻe through community engagement. Thirdly, he will support efforts at Kalaeokaunaʻoa near Kahuku Point to maintain and enhance the native coastal ecosystem and promote culturally-grounded, environmental education.

Kaleohano was raised in Paumalū on Oʻahu’s North Shore, where his passion for ʻāina and aloha ʻāina first began. He attended Kamehameha Schools Kapālama for high school then Stanford University for a bachelor’s of science in earth systems and the Univeristy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a Master’s of Environmental Management in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. Through his undergraduate thesis and graduate capstone project, he collaborated with Hoʻokuaʻāina, a nonprofit organization growing people through the cultivation of kalo in Kailua, Oʻahu. Together, they have studied the qualitative impacts of Hoʻokuaʻāina’s work through more than 40 interviews about people’s experiences with, and perspectives on, the organization.