Kanani joined the Innocence Project as a paralegal in July 2022. Prior to joining the IP, Kanani worked as a resource coordinator at the Center for Court Innovation, where she supported clients charged with misdemeanors in New York; as a research consultant for Kaunalewa, a nonprofit pursuing environmental justice in Hawai’i; and as a Stanford Human Rights Fellow at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Kanani graduated from Stanford University with her B.A. in international relations and a minor in German studies in 2019, where she focused on the relationship between history, human rights, and racial justice.