Boards and Staff

Board of Directors

MARY PAT WATERHOUSE, President: Formerly Director of Budget and Fiscal Services, City and County of Honolulu; Board of Directors, Diagnostic Laboratory Services; Former CFO, Hawai'i Community Foundation

JOHN ZABRISKIE, Treasurer:  Retired board member and partner, KPMG, international accounting firm; former Board member and President, Better Business Bureau of Hawai`i; former Board of Directors, Child and Family Service

KATHERINE WATANABE BENNETT, J.D., M.S.W., SecretaryFormerly with Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i and Volunteer Legal Services Hawai`i

CHAD KOYANAGI, M.D., Vice President, Policy: Assistant Chief of Psychiatry, Queens Medical Center

KATHLEEN DELAHANTY, Vice President, Program: Management Consultant; Formerly Director of Client Services, Hawai`i Disability Rights Center; Governor-appointed member of Hawaii’s State Health Planning & Development Agency Honolulu Sub-Area Council

HON. JUDGE SANDRA SIMMS (Ret.), Vice President, Resource Development: Mediator, Panel of Neutrals, Dispute Prevention and Resolution; Member, Bar Association, Hawai`i State Board of Bar Examiners; Secretary, African American Lawyers Assoc. of Hawai`i; member/former President, Soroptimist Int’l. of Waikiki Foundation; President, Hawaii Chapter, The Links, Inc.; Director, Founder, Region Fellowship for Soroptimist Int’l. of the Americas; Adjunct Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Chaminade University

M. PUALANI KAMAUNU BASBAS, Vice President, Maui: Chair, MHA-Maui Operating Board: Community Children's Council of Maui Family Specialist Co-Chair; Board of Directors, Waihe`e Community Association and Ho`oulu`ai

JEAN ADAIR-LELAND, Ph.D.: Clinical Psychologist, Kapiolani Child Protection Center and Private Practice; Former Chief Psychologist, Queens Medical Center Dept. of Psychology; Karl F. Heiser Presidential Award, American Psychological Assn.   

CHUCK FREEDMAN: Formerly President, Corporate Relations, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., and Director of Communications, Office of the Governor

KEN HIPP: Former Chairman, National Mediation Board, Washington, D.C.; former Partner, Goodsill Anderson Quinn and Stifel, and Marr Hipp Jones and Pepper

LINDA KRIEGER, J.D.: Professor of Law and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program, John A. Richardson School of Law

CRYSTAL LEE AGUINALDO: MHA-Kauai County:  Network of Care Peer Educator, Kauai Community Mental Health Center; Peer Coach, Mental Health Kokua; Coordinator, Kauai Consumer, Family & Youth Alliance.

ELIZABETH NAHOLOWA`A MURPH: Grants Manager, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation

DEANE NEUBAUER, Ph.D.: Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai`i, Manoa, and Senior Consultant, Education Program, East-West Center

LINDA TAKAI, M.S.Ed.: Substitute Teacher; Hawai`i Certified Peer Specialist

SCOTT WALL: Hawai`i Certified Peer Specialist; member, Governor’s Advisory Commission on Rehabilitation; Board Member, Makamae Unit Residents Association, Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Co-Chair, Kalihi-Palama District Board, Honolulu Community Action Program

Staff


MARYA GRAMBS, Executive Director


COLLEEN WALLACE, Branch Director - Maui County


ANTONIA ALVAREZ, MSW, Youth Suicide and Bullying Prevention Director


BRADDOC DeCAIRES, Office Manager

Advisory Board

AMY AGBAYANI: Founding Director, Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity UH Manoa

PAMELA BURNS: President & CEO, Hawaiian Humane Society

KIRK CALDWELL: Attorney, Ashford & Wriston

CLIFF CISCO: Senior Vice President, HMSA

EVERETT DOWLING: President, Dowling Inc.

TERRENCE R. GEORGE: Vice President & Executive Director, Harold K. L. Castle Foundation

PETER S. HO: President, Bank of Hawai`i

TIM JOHNS: President & CEO, Bishop Museum

PATTI LYONS: Board of Directors, Consuelo Foundation

JERRY RAUKHORST: President & CEO, Catholic Charities

LAURA ROBERTSON: President & CEO, Goodwill Industries

ROY SAKUMA: Ukulele master

JIM TOLLEFSON: President & CEO, Chamber of Commerce of Hawai`i

JOHN WAIHEE: Former Governor

JEFF WATANABE: Ret. Founder, Watanabe Ing LLC

 

Pro Bono Legal Counsel

PAUL ALSTON, Esq.

 
 


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