May 3, 2023 Brandy Nālani McDougall, MFA ’01 (creative writing), uses storytelling and poetry as a force for healing and connection, pilina, to and through the land, ʻāina, for the people of Hawaiʻi. https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-alumna-named-hawaiis-new-poet-laureate?utm_source=uoaa&utm_medium=shout&utm_campaign=may23
