Media Coverage of Kuleana (click images for links)
From Hawai'i Radio Hour show and podcast September 7, 2025 with host Naka Nathaniel. "Episode 15"
From Hawai'i Public Radio August 26, 2025. By DW Gibson.
"Memoir Charts the History of Land Ownership Through Family Lineage"
From Hawai'i News Now August, 9 2025. By Sydney Brammer and Annalisa Burgos. "New memoir shares Native Hawaiian family's saga to preserve ancestral homelands, identity and legacy"
From Pantsuit Politics podcast July 26, 2025. Hosted by Sarah Stewart Holland. "Tourism, Belonging, and Protecting the Places We Love."
From USA Today July 17, 2025. By Kathleen Wong. "Their property taxes rose nearly 600%. They're fighting to keep their land in paradise."
From The Seattle Times July, 7 2025. Column by Naomi Ishisaka. "The history of Hawaii you may not know"
From NPR's Los Angeles station KCRW "Press Play" with host Madeline Brand: July 7, 2025 "Can native Hawaiian values coexist with capitalism?"
From NPR's San Francisco station, KQED program, "The Forum" with host Alexis Madrigal: June 26, 2025 "In Sara Kehaulani Goo’s Kuleana, culture and capitalism collide in Hawaii”
From NPR's Morning Edition with host Michel Martin: June 18, 2025 "Journalist and author Sara Kehaulani Goo discusses her new book 'Kuleana'"
From The 1A with host Jenn White: June 17, 2025 "The legacy, land and responsibility of Native Hawaiians."
From Memoir Nation Podcast: June 16, 2025 "Sara Kehaulani Goo on writing as kuleana."
From The Atlantic: June 7, 2025 "What Hula Taught Me" by Sara Kehaulani Goo, adapted excerpt of Kuleana "In Hawaiian culture, I envision myself in a line, where uphill I see and honor all the generations that have come before, and downhill I see all the generations yet to come."
From Ka Wai Ola: June 1, 2025 "Faces of the Diaspora: A Story About Displacement and ʻOhana Land on Maui"
From Grist: May 30, 2025 "In her new book, 'Kuleana,' Sara Kehaulani Goo fights to keep her family's land" A Q/A with the Native Hawaiian author on what she learned writing her memoir.
From Civil Beat: May 23, 2025 "Kirstin Downey: Caring For The 'Āina, From Thousands Of Miles Away. A new book shows how one Hawaiian family has upheld its responsibility to care for an important cultural site in the face of rising taxes and encroaching development."