Ep. 3: Halaevalu Vakalahi

Halaevalu Vakalahi is the president and CEO of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). She's a Pacific Islander born in Tonga and raised in Hawaii. Her areas of teaching expertise include social policy, human behavior, and the social work environment, and organizational leadership. Her two areas of research and scholarship are Pacific Islander culture and community, and women of color in academia. She earned a BS in business management from BYU Hawaii and MSW from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a master's in education and PhD in social work from the University of Utah.