About makana

meet the candidate

Anthony Makana Paris grew up in a fishing and farming family in Lualualei and Nānākuli, Oʻahu. He currently resides in Kapolei where he takes care of his mother, a retired janitor and a homemaker, and father, a retired ironworker.

Anthony Makana Paris was raised in the faith community of St. Rita’s Catholic Church on Hawaiian Home Lands. He attended Nānākuli Elementary and Kamehameha Schools, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering; from GTU and the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara with a Masters’ in Philosophy and Theology; and from the University of Hawai‘i William S. Richardson School of Law with a J.D.   

Anthony Makana Paris has worked as a farmer and a fisherman, as a consultant, as a lab specialist, as an entrepreneur, and as an advisor to the Hawai‘i Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee. He currently serves as the Treasurer for the National Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Chair of the Prince Kūhiō Hawaiian Civic Club- Scholarship Fund, as a board member for the Wai‘anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, and as a research analyst for the Iron Workers Stabilization Fund.