Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada is a second year graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Library & Information Science and plans on becoming a children’s librarian after graduation in June 2009. For the 2007-2008 school year, Lessa was awarded the UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program and for the 2008-2009 school year, she was awarded the County of Los Angeles Public Library Tuition Reimbursement Program. She graduated in March 2007 from UCLA with a degree in Sociology with College Honors.
Lessa currently dances in Kaulana Ka Hale Kula ‘O Na Pua ‘O Ka ‘Aina under the direction of Kumu Randy Chang.
Lessa grew up in Torrance, California and currently resides in Long Beach with her husband, Christian, and their two cats, Pele and Honu.
Aloha Lessa,
I graduated from UCLA with my MLIS and MA in Asian American Studies in 2006…
Just ran into your blog as I surfed the web looking for Auntie Sissy’s website – My daughter and I used to dance in her Halau.
Did you graduate this last quarter? I’m also involved in the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Assoc. – and affiliate of ALA. and the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown – Los Angeles. If you’d like to talk sometime over coffee, I’d love to find out more about your research and hula. We live in Carson and have 2 doggies. We have 2 daughters, the older one, Gabriela is married and we became grandparents last March. My younger one (the hula dancer) is going into her 3rd year at UCSB. Hope to hear from you…..
God Bless