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About Kalani Foster
I am a third year PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. My research broadly looks at the relationship between Indigeneity, technology, and biodiversity conservation, with my current PhD project examining how (settler) colonialism is embedded within conservation technology and data and how this is impacting Indigenous pastoralists in northern Kenya. My work is influenced by scholar/activism principles linked to my personal background as a Hawaiian researcher (with Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian family), as my focus on how Indigeneity is constructed and impacted by environmental data/technology stems from Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian struggles against the Mauna Loa and Kea observatories and the Thirty Metre Telescope as representations of the United States' settler colonialism of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kalani:
October 29, 2026
Stewards of the Land
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth…