AAUW of Hilo

06/14/2025

LINK IN BIO 🔗 Check out Civil Beat today for an op-ed by AAUW of Hilo member Elizabeth Jubin Fujiwara on a recent County Council vote against funding food security.

“On June 5, in the face of federal cuts already impacting our communities, council member Jennifer Kagiwada (District 2) introduced a modest but vital amendment — $2 million for local food security programs. But the amendment was voted down…

To our County Council and Mayor Kimo Alameda: if hunger is not your preeminent task, what is? Our keiki cry out not for your speeches, but for your action. “He aliʻi ka ʻāina; he kauwā ke kanaka.” (The land is the chief, man is its servant.)
The land, and by extension its people — especially its children — are chief. Leaders must serve. They must feed.”

04/10/2025

On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky to vacate the updated Title IX rules released in April 2024. The decision makes it easier for schools to dismiss cases, harder to hold perpetrators of s*xual harassment and assault accountable, and more difficult for survivors to get the protections they need.

Join us on April 23 at 5:30PM to learn more about the "Challenges of Title IX in the Current Environment" in this panel discussion.
Register at tinyurl.com/aauwhi-april25 to receive your own zoom link. Shawna Pabingwit, Title IX Coordinator at UH Maui College; Anna Ezzy, State Director of Every Voice Coalition Hawaii; and Koalani Kauweloa, a student from UH Hilo, are our panelists. Submit your questions for the speaker to [email protected].

07/12/2024

House votes to prevent enforcement of new Title IX rules. Read our full statement on this critical issue: https://www.aauw.org/resources/news/new-title-ix-9-rules-overturned-house/

02/18/2024

Congratulations to all the Science Fair winners awarded by AAUW Hilo Branch ❤️

07/31/2023

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Reel Wāhine of Hawaiʻi won in the category Historical/Cultural--News or Long Form Content.

06/28/2023

On the 51st anniversary of Title IX, Mayor Mitch Roth proclaimed June 23rd as Title IX Day. Mahalo to the community groups and advocates who helped make this happen!

06/23/2023

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June 23, 2023 marks the 51st anniversary of Title IX.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which our own Patsy T Mink was major author and sponsor, prohibits s*x discrimination in all areas of education, protecting students and staff in any educational institution that receives federal funds.