Sanae Hartmann

Originally from southern California and now living in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, Sanae is trained in political and social science, bioremediation, and decolonial methodologies. She works to build community capacity in remediating environmental pollution across Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi. Sanae’s commitment to environmental justice began while completing her undergrad and graduate education at Cal Poly Humboldt where she studied political systems, actors, institutions, impacts across scales, and the colonial roots of environmental contamination. Sanae is currently a PhD candidate in the geography department at Penn State. In this capacity, her forthcoming dissertation project is a community collaboration to map the moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy) of the Red Hill Crisis, thus revealing new remediation possibilities.