Jody Kaulukukui is the Executive Director of Advancement and Partnerships for ASU Foundation where she leads advancement, development and external relations efforts for all of ASUF’s work in Hawai`i. She works closely with ASU to develop partnerships and projects throughout the islands that focus on education, sustainability, communities, and indigenous knowledge systems. Prior to ASUF, she worked at The Nature Conservancy, where her work focused on strategic planning and negotiation of real estate transactions, including all TNC acquisitions and conservation easements across the islands. While at TNC, she also led TNC Hawai`i’s climate strategies, which included focusing on exploring Hawai`i’s forest carbon sequestration offset projects and potential markets.
Raised in Kailua on O`ahu, Jody graduated from Kamehameha Schools and the University of Oregon with a degree in Journalism. She received her law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i in 1998, where she was Co-Managing Editor of the Law Review. From 1998-2006, she was a litigation and real estate attorney, and her practice focused on the areas of business and real property, trusts and estate, native Hawaiian rights, and litigation, including cases involving quiet title and partition.
She has a Graduate Certificate from Michigan State University in Forest Carbon Science, Policy and Management where she was a Weyerhaeuser Fellow. She currently is an Advisory Member of Hawaii Land Trust, and a member of the Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce and the Lambda Alpha International Land Economics Society, Hawai`i Chapter.
She has served as a Commissioner on the Clean Water and Natural Lands Commission for the City and County of Honolulu, and has been an adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai`i, William S. Richardson School of Law teaching Conservation Transactions, where she has been selected as Outstanding Lecturer.