Name: Real Talk on Reentry: Lived Experiences and Opportunities for Change
Start: 2026-05-06T12:00:00-10:00
End: 2026-05-06T13:00:00-10:00
Location: Aliʻiōlani Hale

$Real Talk on Reentry: \u00a0Lived Experiences and Opportunities for Change$

Five speakers with lived experience of incarceration, successfully reintegrated back into community, discuss improvements to reentry.
About this Event

This panel discussion brings together five speakers with lived experience of incarceration, each successfully reintegrated back into community and assisting others to do the same with effective reentry strategies. Kimmy Takata (Reentry Advocate and Peer Support Leader) will moderate the conversation, featuring Matt Taufetee (Director, First LAP: Life After Pr*son), Dida Baza (Peer Leader, The Ruth House), Nina Kealoha (Owner, Kon Kreations), and Trisha Liupaono (Founder, My Sister’s Keeper). They will share their personal journeys—what they experienced while incarcerated, what reentry looked like for them, and opportunities for the State of Hawaiʻi to improve support for incarcerated individuals and their ʻohana. The panelists hope to bring both honesty and solutions to the conversation.

To join via Zoom webinar, or to recieve a recording of the discussion, please RSVP here: https://courts-hawaii-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pfph1f5pQeapHgJiAaXAeg#/registration

Presented in Partnership by: King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center and Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice

Disclaimer: While the Judiciary History Center provides a venue for diverse discussion, the speakers’ remarks do not represent opinions of the Hawaiʻi State Judiciary.