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Momi started off working as a Hawaiian Studies teacher in Kona for five years, she went on to work for Bishop Museum for
another five years learning and inspired by Hawaiian plants. While working with the museum she met two of her teachers and
colleagues Dr. Dennis Mckenna (ethnopharmacologist) and Kathleen Harrison (Ethnobotanist). Momi's field work in Ethnobotany
took her to the shores of W. Samoa to help to find a cure for HIV/AIDs along with her teachers Dr. Paul Cox (Ethnobotanists)
Dr. Gaugau Tavana (Ethnobotanist), and Dr. Holly Johnson.
She has traveled around the islands educating others on how to use plants for food, medicine, and arts of Hawai'i. She
currently teaches Ethnobotany in the community and works closely with the Kona Community and Miloli'i to raise awareness about
Hawaiian plants and self reliance.
In the year 2015, Momi attended a First Nations Conference on Food Sovereignty and has been promoting it throughout the
islands through educating others. She was inspired further to promote food sovereignty in Hawaii. She has been air layering
and learning to graft trees so achieve food sovereignty.
Her hobbies include: Educating the general public on the plants,and ecosystems. She is an avid wood worker, kapa maker,
lauhala weaver, farmer, and loves teaching the community about the plants through the stories of our elders and stories she
experienced through working with the plants.
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