Amy Kalili

Amy Kalili is a partner with Pilina First, a Hawaiʻi-based strategy, content, and communications firm connecting clients with audiences through meaningful relationships grounded in our unique perspective as people from this special place. Amy’s passion for helping to advance and advocate for the Hawaiian language movement for over 20 years has built the inseverable relationships that have afforded her opportunities and experiences from classrooms and newsrooms to courtrooms and boardrooms.

Her time as the Executive Director of the internationally renowned ʻAha Pūnana Leo, as well as being the only Hawaiian language news anchor, and helping to start and run ʻŌiwi Television Network were all fueled by and grounded in the goal of normalizing ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi once again in its homeland.

Amy is a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools and received her BA in Business Administration and BA in Hawaiian Studies from the UHH in 1997 and 2001 respectively. She also completed her Master’s in Business Administration from the UHM and her JD from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2006 and was admitted to the Hawaiʻi State Bar in 2007. Amy is a fluent speaker of the Hawaiian language and is fortunate to have been part of the Hawaiian language movement since the early-1990s.