Dr. Miki Tomita Okamoto is the Founder and CEO of Education Incubator, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering young people, adults and communities to live with passion and purpose in service of a better world. Born and raised on Maui, Miki graduated from Baldwin High School, earned a B.S.E. in Biosystems Engineering from University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University.
Miki focuses her work in education on placing youth and communities at the center of transforming society’s challenges into opportunities for learning and invention, elevating the role of traditional, cultural and place-based knowledge and practice to the forefront of a regenerative society that holds ALOHA at its core. She identifies as a descendant of Japanese settlers in Hawaiʻi, an indigenous ally, a student of traditional healers and practitioners, an entrepreneur and a maker. She has worked as a teacher, researcher, and curriculum developer in private, public, charter, post-high, and informal education for 25 years.