Anamalia Su’esu’e

DNA Research Fellow

Anamalia (Ana) Suʻesuʻe (she/her) is a Community Psychology doctoral student at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Ana’s family is from the villages of Utulei, Fagatogo, and Fitiuta, American Samoa. Ana and her two younger sisters were born in Hawaiʻi and raised in Kaʻaʻawa on Oʻahu and Keaʻau on Hawaiʻi Island. Ana's research interests include culturally responsive policies and programs for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in health and education. She is also interested in community-based participatory research and Indigenous research methods. As a graduate research assistant, Ana has worked on projects focused on Native Hawaiian resilience and historical trauma as well as alternative incarceration models in Hawaiʻi. Ana was selected as a Public Health Law Fellow with the CDC and ChangeLab Solutions in 2023 where she worked with the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board in South Dakota on issues related to tribal health data access policies. Ana holds an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and a B.S. in Psychology from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She currently lives in Hauʻula with her husband and their two children, her mother, and younger sister.