About Us
Live Longer, Better
Wellness Warriors UHM is an organization that promotes the Blue Zones Project. Our mission is to create improvements within our community to help people make healthy choices easier for everyone in Hawaii. When more people participate, the small changes contribute huge benefits for all of us: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and a higher quality of life.
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Wellness Warriors UHM focus on changing a community’s environment so that individuals are inspired to making healthy choices. We take a systematic approach to improving well-being through policy, building design, social networks, and built environment. By optimizing the places that we live, work and play – we can make the healthy choices the easy choices so we naturally adopt healthy behaviors.
Our Story
President Jackie Osumi started the Wellness Warriors with an aim to educate and inspire students to live a healthier, longer life and tries to incorporate a variety of approaches for the wellbeing of the student. Through Wellness Warriors, she hopes to foster community connections as well as reveal the beauty of the heiau.