Ms. Jina

Ms. Jina received her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has experience teaching Preschool, Kindergarten, and Fourth and Fifth Grades. She is passionate about seeing the unique abilities in each child and creating space for those abilities to grow and flourish. She is very grateful to be here at Alaka’i this year in her role as an Education Assistant.

Jina is a mother to five beautiful children; Blaise, Lilly, Mia, Anna, and Bear, who is in the Third Grade at Alaka’i.

In her free time, Jina loves to spend time in nature, garden, write, paint, read, and help her partner, Gabriel, in creating a homestead in Omao.