Vance Medeiros is a second-year M.A Student in the Communication Studies Department. Vance studies Indigenous Social Movements and Indigenous Rhetoric, specifically through the lens of Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). Recently, Vance has been interested in Indigenous Resurgence and Indigenous Epistemological Frameworks of Kānaka Maoli, and how it is enacted in contemporary social movements, and activism. His interest lies not only in rhetorical scholarship, but in elucidating what exactly is Kānaka Rhetoric.

When he's not in the office, you can find Vance listening to podcasts, making lei, writing poetry, or drawing.