C. Mamo Kim is a Kanaka Maoli/Asian and earned her Ph.D. in political science, with an emphasis on the politics of the West and Native/Ethnic epistemology. She is a playwright, an actress, a political activist, an astrologer/healer/psi reader and has been published internationally. She has lived in Japan, Michigan, Hawaii, Okinawa, London, L.A., the Bay Area, and Humboldt County, California, where she presently resides.