Mark K. McKeague, AICP (Kanaka Maoli)

President
G70
Honolulu, Hawaii

Mark Kawika McKeague, AICP, is President and Principal Planner of G70 and a Kanaka Maoli cultural practitioner whose work is grounded in ancestral responsibility to Hawaiʻi. He advances a planning practice shaped by moral ecology, recognizing that decisions about land, housing, and governance determine whether a people remain relevant in their own homeland. For more than two decades, Kawika has worked at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and public policy, strengthening community self-determination while reforming systems that have displaced Native Hawaiians from land and power. He led the planning and entitlement strategy for Puʻuhonua o Waiʻanae, Hawaiʻi’s largest Native Hawaiian-led village born from houselessness and built through community governance and cultural stewardship, and guided cultural planning for the Kalaupapa Memorial. His perspective on remembrance and responsibility also informed his service as a design juror for the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., contributing to a national dialogue on Indigenous presence and honor. Through his leadership, planning becomes an act of continuity, so that a sense of belonging is not inherited by chance, but by intentional acts of care and aloha.

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Presentation(s):

• From Encampment to Empowerment: Aloha in Action

  Monday, April 27, 2026
  8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CT