Purple Mai a Foundation

Purple Mai a Foundation is a 501(c)(3) technology education nonprofit. We teach coding and computer science through after-school or elective classes to Native Hawaiian students low-income youth and others who are underrepresented in tech. As we increase access to tech education and increase students earning potential we also ground students to tech education that their ancestors were indigenous innovators who used their skills and perspective to serve their communities and lands. We support Hawaiian values in contemporary tech culture and we think that by learning to innovate as indigenous technologies we can be part of a global shift toward growing more sustainable and just societies.