Jana Wilkinson
TRIO Trainer (P5 and P6)
Contact
(808) 649-0373
janalw@hawaii.edu
Jana has been the Upward Bound Program Director at the University of Hawaii, Maui College, for eight years. She runs two Upward Bound Classic programs and one Upward Bound Math Science and serves 205 high school students in Maui Nui, consisting of Maui, Moloka’i, and Lana’i islands. Her students represent a diverse population of Pacific Islanders.
Jana's program incorporates traditional Indigenous knowledge with a problem-based learning curriculum and STEM. She has oriented the UB program around projects that highlight and complement the diverse traditions and cultural practices that her students embody.
Specialties include STEM education, recruitment, retention, policies, and procedures.