Kristin Kumashiro received her B.S. from University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 1988 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995. She did postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1995-1997) in the Departments of Chemistry and Polymer Science and Engineering. She joined the faculty of the University of Hawai’i in the spring of 1997.