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
Bill Reeves
Co-Founder of Unbound Philanthropy and the Learning Coalition
Micah A. Kāne
Chief Executive Officer and President, Hawai‘i Community Foundation
Lauren Nahme
Vice President of Strategy and Transformation, Kamehameha Schools
Maya Soetoro
Consultant, Obama Foundation
UH ADVISORS
Peter Arnade
Dean,
College of Arts and Humanities
Michael Bruno
Provost,
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Qimei Chin
Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean, Shildler College of Business
C.H. (Chip) Fletcher
Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Associate Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Roy Gal
Assistant Astronomer and Outreach Coordinator, Institute for Astronomy
Noelle Kahanu
Assistant Specialist, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
Langdon Li
President, Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i
Jon Matsuda
Director of Credit Programs Outreach College and
Representative of Mānoa Faculty Senate
Colin Moore
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, Public Policy Center, College of Social Sciences
Avi Soifer
Dean, William S. Richardson School of Law
Karla Zarate-Ramirez
Vice President for Development, UH Foundation
Ronette Kawakami
Associate Dean, William S. Richardson School of Law
Staff
Maile Au
Interim Sr. Executive Director of Alumni Relations,
UH Foundation
Chips DeMate
Senior Communications Officer
Hawai‘i Community Foundation
Makena Duffy
Student Video Editor
Lori Furoyama
Educational Specialist,
OVCAA
Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe
Director
UHM’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center
Robert Perkinson
Associate Professor of American Studies; Speaker Series Coordinator
Makani Sabala-Bactad
Work-Study Student
Shinya Saito
Student Technical Assistant
Chad Walton
Research Program Officer
iLab Program Manager
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
