Naz Kawakami

Naz Kawakami (he/him) is a 26 year old journalist and photographer from Honolulu, Hawaii. He enjoys reporting on music, skateboarding, film, economics, and the sociopolitical issues of the Central Pacific. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he served as the News and Politics Director at KTUH (the university radio station) and was explicitly asked not to contribute to Ka Leo (the university newspaper). He has worked as a contributing editor, a managing editor, a copywriter, a photographer, a script editor, and wrote a feature film, Every Day In Kaimuki, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York City, where he works as a freelance writer and producer.