He also has been involved extensively with a number of Native Hawaiian rights and legal issues and is currently the President of the Native Hawaiian Bar Association. Naiwi is a 1983 graduate of the Kamehameha Schools. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley, his J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii, and his advanced law degree, LL.M., with a focus on international law and indigenous issues from the University of California-Berkeley.