I have a Ph.D. degree in political science specializing in international relations and public law. My expertise focuses on the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent State that has and continues to be under an illegal belligerent occupation by the United States since January 17, 1893. I am a faculty member at the University of Hawai‘i Windward Community College and an adjunct faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Education. I am also the chairman of the Hawaiian Council of Regency and represented the Hawaiian government as its agent in international arbitral proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands, in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom, from 1999-2001. I am also co-chair of the NLG International Committee's Hawaiian Kingdom Subcommittee.