Maui Grassroots Collective is advocacy for housing, healthcare, and community.

As a collective, we are Holomua Outreach, Maui Housing Hui, Maui Medic Healers Hui, and Maui Rapid Response.


Holomua Outreach is a grassroots organization created to support and uplift our houseless community within the hamakua ahupuaʻa of Maui Nui A Kama. Our efforts are currently focused on Holomua Road from Hana Highway to Old Maui High.

Holomua Outreach's mission is to provide basic needs care such as food, water, hygiene supplies, first aid supplies, and as much support as is needed for the houseless community.

Through consistent outreach, we have inspired a sense of community. We hope to empower individuals to find a sense of purpose, to create safe space, and to mālama ʻāina.


The Maui Housing Hui began as a group of renters in late 2022 under a different name. We volunteered our time to learn about renters rights and spread what we have learned to all the renters of Maui. We began identifying the weaknesses in renter protections and seeking feedback from renters on what protections they hoped to see from leadership.


Maui Rapid Response (MRR) is an ahupaʻa inspired frontline mutual aid network mobilizing resources, people, and action to meet the emergent needs of Maui’s most vulnerable communities. We link ‘ohana to essential resources, support networks, and collective action as stewards of the first written human rights act, Kānāwai Māmalahoe. Established in 2019 and a founding organization of Maui Grassroots Collective.


In sisterhood with the Mauna Medic Healers Hui, the Maui Medic Healers Hui mobilized immediately in response to the devastating Lahaina fires in August 2023. We are a Kānaka Maoli-led team that provides grassroots, community-driven services and empowers the people. We offer a variety of services as we strive to create spaces for healing in times of struggle, disaster, and trauma.

Meet Our Board

Every generation has its own ike, manaʻo, and perspective to share.

They uniquely help shape, steer, and give direction for our organization.

This Kanaka leadership is foundational to how we move in our community.

We are humbled to have kūpuna, makua, and ʻōpio board members.

Leiʻohu Ryder

PRESIDENT (KUPUNA)

All life is sacred. What we do to Honua, we do to ourselves. It’s that simple…

Aloha Kekahi I Kekahi!

Okaliʻi Kaūilaokalani Kawaʻakoa

TREASURER (ʻŌPIO)

Okaliʻi Kawaʻakoa is 21 years of age and comes from the town of Haiku in the ahupuaʻa of Hamakualoa. In his free time he likes to spend time with his sisters and dogs and perpetuate the practices of diving and throwing net with his cousins.

Kawika Hoke

SECRETARY (MAKUA)

Kawika Hoke is a filmmaker and media advocate dedicated to strengthening Hawaii’s creative and public broadcasting industries. He also serves as Director of Creative Development at Laulima Public Broadcasting & Content (LPB&C). His expertise in media production and strategic marketing makes him a valuable voice in community-driven initiatives.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.
— Grace Lee Boggs