Katy Hintzen is a Coastal Resilience Specialist with the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program. She also serves as the Climate Adaptation Services Liaison for the Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center, and the Project and Partnership Coordinator for the Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence. Katy specializes in helping coastal communities prepare for and adapt to climate change impacts across the Hawaiian Islands. She also works as part of a team in partnership with KUA to develop and share the Kūlana Noiʻi, a set of guidelines for building and sustaining equitable and effective partnerships between researchers and Native Hawaiian resource stewards. Katy is a founding steering committee member of the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative.