ABOUT
Connor Arakaki is a Kanaka Maoli writer at Yale University, where she studies Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and English. Their primary interests are Indigenous politics, investigative journalism, museum work, and film.
She is a 2026 fellow for the Indigenous Journalism Association and a publications intern at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Recently, she was a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, and Hawai‘i News Now. Their journalism and criticism can also be found in The Nation, Forging Journal, DIAGRAM, HIFILM, and venues elsewhere. She was a cohort member of the First America Writing Workshop and Hawai‘i International Film Festival Critics Immersive, and publishes reviews and creative writing.
During the 2024-25 school year, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald, the university's weekly magazine.
She was born and raised in ‘Ewa Beach, Hawai‘i, and is an aspiring cruciverbalist.
Email: connorarakaki01@gmail.com