Line-Noue Memea Kruse hails from the villages of Sapapali’i, Vaisala, Vaimoso, Vaitoloa, Pesega, Tuana’i, and Manunu in Sāmoa. She was raised in Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu.  She is an Assistant Professor of Pacific History at University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Her advocacy of the humanities in Hawai‘i and the Moana has been through connecting communities as a planner by trade and preserving stories through publication, oral history projects, and place based collaborations between institutions and communities.