Sara Kehaulani Goo
Award Winning Journalist and Author
New Release
Kuleana
A new memoir about Hawai'i, told from the Native Hawaiian perspective. Set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of award-winning journalist Sara Kehaulani Goo’s family saga to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands—and find herself along the way.
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New: Praise for Kuleana
“A sui generis book, Sara Kehaulani Goo’s Kuleana deftly blends memoir and reportage into a revelatory and refreshing exploration of connections — to one's heritage, to one's family, and to one's home.”
—Jose Antonio Vargas, author of Dear America and White Is Not a Country
"By telling the story of her own family, Sara shines light on the many who experience the similar injustice of being displaced from their land, and the wound it inflicts deep into the essence of one's personal history, culture and, therefore, identity. Kuleana is more than a story, it's what will help navigate the healing for all native people, not just in Hawai’i but around the world.”
—Nainoa Thompson, Pwo Navigator and CEO of Polynesian Voyaging Society
“A powerful story of land, belonging, loss, and survival that challenges us all to think about what we are responsible for. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of land in Hawaii – and for that matter, this land we now call the United States."
-- Rebecca Nagle, author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
More accolades:
“Sara Kehaulani Goo reminds us that no matter how far we Hawaiians stray away from our homeland our ancestors will continue to reach out to us and teach us forever. All we have to do is listen.”
—Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa, author of Nā Wāhine Kapu and Native Land and Foreign Desires
“In her riveting memoir, Kuleana, journalist Sara Kehaulani Goo tells us more about the difficult past of one of the most beautiful places on earth than any history book can conjure. In it, a native Hawaiian family struggles to reclaim the ancestral lands that colonization, tourism, and rampant development threaten to overrun. A veteran reporter, Goo plumbs every aspect of this story, spooling an engrossing narrative that informs as much as it engages. It is at once a chilling and inspirational tale.”
—Marie Arana, author of American Chica and LatinoLand
"Sara's story is a uniquely AAPI one— from Hawai'i where the Asian American experience is different from the U.S. Mainland experience. I love that she brings that story into the American narrative—to be seen and to be known."
—Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
About Sara Kehaulani Goo
Sara Kehaulani Goo is a journalist and senior news executive who has led several news organizations including Axios, NPR and The Washington Post. She is the former editor-in-chief at Axios, where she launched the company’s editorial expansion into national and local newsletters, podcasts and live journalism. Before Axios, she led online audience growth as a managing editor at NPR, overseeing the newsroom's digital news operation. Goo also served as news director at The Washington Post, where she also served as a business editor and reporter.