Service/Awards
• President, Kaka‘ako United, citizens working for quality development in Kaka‘ako.
• Organizer/co-host “Hawai‘i: The State of Clean Energy” ThinkTech Hawai‘i television show
• Vice-president, Hawai‘i Technology Institute, helping disadvantaged Native Hawaiians, others
• Vice-president, One Waterfront Towers Condominium Board
• Volunteer, Family Promise, Church of the Crossroads helping houseless families
• Makiki Stream Stewards, organized stream clean up and revival with students from Washington Middle, McKinley High and Ka‘ahumanu Elementary, receiving City's Good Neighborhood Award for "environmental team leadership"
• Facilitator, Hawai‘i State Senate Working Group on Family Court Legal Interventions, helping children in high conflict divorces, earning Children's Rights Council Award
• Organizer and co-chair, Good Neighbor Store, Democratic Party program helping over 1000 underprivileged and abused children.
• "Unsung Hero" Award, Hawai‘i's Thousand Friends
• UH Robert Clopton Award for Outstanding Community Service
• National Education Association Ellison Onizuka Memorial Award for work that significantly impacts education for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
• Hawai‘i State Public Administration Award from the American Society for Public Administration for "innovative management of the Department of Personnel Services”
• Eugene Rooney Leadership Award from the National Association of State Personnel Executives for "her dynamism and outstanding leadership in human resources development"