Pualani Enos, J.D. is the Executive Director for Hui Malama Learning Center in Maui, HI.  She also teaches Women’s Studies Courses as a lecturer for University of Hawaii Outreach College on Maui.  Before coming to Hui Malama in April of 2006, she was the Program Director for Hale ‘Ohana at the Neighborhood Place of Wailuku.   Prior to this position, she worked as Research Faculty at University of Hawaii Manoa School of Social Work as the Evaluation Coordinator for the Ke Ala Lokahi project, a culturally-based intervention for Hawaiian batterers and survivors of intimate partner violence at Turning Point For Families in Hilo, Hawai’i.   Prior to moving to Hawai’i, Pualani spent seven years working as a Clinical Professor at Northeastern University School of Law’s Domestic Violence Institute (DVI) where she directed several experiential learning programs in medical, legal and social service settings. 

 

At Northeastern University located in Boston, she managed the Boston Medical Center Domestic Violence Project, a unique interdisciplinary project that trained law, public health, nursing and medical students to provide advocacy to victims of abuse treated in the Emergency Department.  At Northeastern, Pualani also developed and taught an innovative Family Law Litigation course that educated both students and new attorneys volunteering to take pro bono family law cases for battered women.  That course is a part of a larger effort (funded by the Open Society Institute of the George Soros Foundation) to engage the DVI in the process of supporting law graduates to represent low and moderate income residents by forming networks of community lawyers who are given continuing access to the education and technology resources of the law school.  Pualani also directed the development of the Domestic Violence Institute Website (www.dvi.neu.edu), an ambitious technological project intended to assist community members in understanding and accessing legal relief and social services.

Pualani has led two interdisciplinary research projects, funded by the National Institute of Justice, to identify and improve the medical documentation of domestic violence for use in a variety of domestic violence related litigation.   Her research also includes an examination of the experiences of indigenous and immigrant battered mothers in family law proceedings through a participatory research project funded by the Asian and Pacific Islander Institute and the Family Violence Prevention Fund.  She has presented her research and provided training in advocacy and community organizing both nationally and internationally.

Pualani graduated with a B.A from Skidmore College in 1992 and a J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in 1995.

Pualani can be reached at pualani.enos@mauihui.org.