Kamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Innovation at the University of Hawai'i. Enos is a mixed-race Native Hawaiian, cis male, raised in the community of Wai'anae within the context of the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s—an Indigenous rights movement that continues today. He holds degrees in Hawaiian studies and urban and regional planning from the University of Hawai'i.