The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is administered by the Office of the Provost at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in partnership with the Hawai‘i Community Foundation and Kamehameha Schools.
COMMUNITY ADVISORS
Kā‘eo Duarte
Vice President of the Kamehameha Schools Community and ‘Āina Resiliency Group
Noelani Goodyear
Trustee, Kamehameha Schools; UH professor
Micah A. Kāne
Chief Executive Officer and President, Hawai‘i Community Foundation
Bill Reeves
Co-Founder of Unbound Philanthropy and the Learning Coalition
Sheila Sarhangi
Vice President of Strategic Communications, Hawaii Community Foundation
Maya Soetoro
Consultant, Obama Foundation
UH ADVISORS
Peter Arnade
Dean,
College of Arts, Language & Letters
Michael Bruno
Provost,
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
C.H. (Chip) Fletcher
Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Roy Gal
Assistant Astronomer and Outreach Coordinator, Institute for Astronomy
Noelle Kahanu
Associate Specialist, Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
Jon Matsuda
Program Specialist, Outreach College
Colin Moore
Chair, School of Communication and Information
Raphael Raphael
UH Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Ania Wieczorek
Interim Associate Dean, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
Mark Willingham
President, Graduate Student Organization
Karla Zarate-Ramirez
Associate Vice President, Major Gifts
Staff Liasons
Maile Au
Interim Sr. Executive Director of Alumni Relations,
UH Foundation
Chips DeMate
Communications Director
Hawai‘i Community Foundation
Lori Furoyama
Educational Specialist,
OVCAA
Brandon Ledward
Research Analyst
Kamehameha Schools
Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe
Director
UHM’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center
Dan Meisenzahl
Director, Office of Communications
Chad Walton
Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
BTSS Staff
Robert Perkinson
Associate Professor of American Studies; Director, BTSS
Reanna Salvador
Operations Coordinator, BTSS
Kaia Hutchison
Student Fiscal Assistant, BTSS