Kealoha Pisciotta is a former systems specialist for the joint British-Dutch-Canadian telescope, who became concerned that a stone family shrine she had built for her grandmother and family, years earlier, had been removed and found at a dump. She is one of several people who sued to stop the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope and is also director of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou. Mauna Kea Anaina Hou (People who pray for the mountain,) and its sister group, Mauna Kea Hui, are indigenous, Native Hawaiian, cultural groups with environmental concerns located in the state of Hawaii. The group is described as Native Hawaiian organization comprisedof cultural and lineal descendants, and traditional, spiritual and religious practitioners of the sacred traditions of Mauna Kea.