Strategic Plan Committee Structure and Composition

The Hawaiʻi Papa o Ke Ao leadership is leading the Kuleana imperative through three working groups aligned with the three objectives of this imperative.

• Maenette Benham, Chancellor, UH West Oʻahu, co-chair
• Lui Hokoana, Chancellor, UH Maui College, co-chair

Working Group Objective 1 (Native Hawaiian Student Success and Leadership)

• Keala Chock, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Leeward Community College
• Christielove Espinosa, Graduate Student and Program Coordinator, UH Mānoa/UH West Oʻahu
• Kulamanu Ishihara, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UH Maui College
• Josh Kaakua, Academic Program Officer, UHCC System
• Isaiah Kaauwai, Title IX Coordinator, Kauaʻi Community College
• Lokelani Kenolio, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Kapiʻolani Community College
• Kuʻulei Miranda, Native Hawaiian Counselor, Windward Community College
• Judy Oliveira, Academic Program Officer, UHCC System
• Christine Quintana, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Hawaiʻi Community College

Working Group Objective 2 (Kuleana to Hawaiians and Hawaiʻi)

• Kekoa Harman, Associate Professor, Hawaiian Studies & Hawaiian Language, UH Hilo
• Uʻilani Keliʻikuli, Assistant Professor, Hawaiian Studies, Leeward Community College
• Hōkū Kwan, Director of Native Hawaiian Student Success, UH West Oʻahu
• Hauʻoli Lorenzo-Elarco, Instructor, Honolulu Community College
• Alapaki Luke, Professor, Hawaiian Studies, Honolulu Community College
• Shavonn Matsuda, Librarian, UH Maui College
• Haʻaheo Pagan, Career and Transfer Counselor, Windward Community College
• Pua Rossi, Assistant Professor, Hawaiian Studie, Kauaʻi Community College
• Taupōuri Tangarō, Professor, Hawaiʻi Life Styles, Hawaiʻi Community College
• Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum, Assistant Professor of Law, Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, UH Mānoa

Working Group Objective 3 (Reconciliation and Healing)

• Naʻalehu Anthony, Community Partner
• Kahelelani Cruz, Assistant Professor, Arts and Humanities, Kapiʻolani Community College
• Christielove Espinosa, Graduate Student and Program Coordinator, Mānoa/UH West Oʻahu
• Keawe Kaholokula, Chair & Professor, Native Hawaiian Health, UH Mānoa
• Momi Kamahele, Professor and Native Hawaiian Student Support Coordinator, Leeward Community College
• Punihei Lipe, Program Officer, Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, UH Mānoa
• Liʻi Nahiwa, Assistant to the Dean of Hawai‘inuiākea, UH Mānoa
• Nāwaʻa Napoleon, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Kapiʻolani Community College
• Leilani Puchalski, Counselor, Native Hawaiian Success, Leeward Community College
• Kanoelani Thompson, Coordinator, Innovation Center for Teaching & Learning, Leeward Community College
• Syreeta Washington, Counselor, Student Services, Leeward Community College

The Student Success Imperative continues the work of the Hawaiʻi Graduation Initiative (HGI) that has been part of prior strategic planning efforts. The committee now includes a more dynamic P-20 and DOE collaboration to drive system and campus actions.

• Farrah-Marie Gomes, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, UH System, co-chair
• Alan Rosenfeld, Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Policy, UH System, co-chair
• Lisamarie Bensman, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Windward Community College
• Debora Halbert, Vice President for Academic Strategy, UH System
• Christopher Holland, Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UH Hilo
• Tiana Loo, Interim Academic and Student Affairs Program Officer, UHCC System
• Michaelyn Nakoa, Interim Executive Director of Strategy, Kapi‘olani Community College
• Jessica Miranda, Director of Strategic Directions, Assessment & Accreditation, UH West O‘ahu
• Kapā Olivera, Interim Assistant Vice Provost for Student Academic Success, UH Mānoa
• Kara Plamann Wagoner, Director of Institutional Research, Analysis and Planning Office, UH System
• Chassidy Sakamoto, Student Success Graduate Assistant
• Stephen Schatz, Executive Director, P-20, UH System
• Della Teraoka, Vice President for the UH Community Colleges, UHCC System

UH plays a critical role in educating the workforce Hawaiʻi needs. UH understands that Hawaiʻi must diversify our economy and prepare the workforce to step into existing and emerging roles in agriculture, sustainable food systems, technology, information technology, and other sectors, while also contributing to the education of next-generation professionals in the public and non-profit sectors. In addition to the committee outlined here, UH has created systemwide cluster working groups centered on key areas for workforce development/pathways in order to address the workforce needs of the present and future.

• Christine Beaule, Director of Workforce Development, UH System, chair
• Will Castillo, Associate Professor and Senior Workforce Coordinator, Leeward Community College
• Dan Doerger, Director of Pacific Center for Advance Technology Training, Honolulu Community College
• Warren Kawano, Career Pathways Strategy Director, Hawaiʻi P-20, UH System
• Laura Lees Nagle, Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UH Maui College
• Jeffrey Moniz, Professor of Education, UH West Oʻahu
• Kara Plamann Wagoner, Director of Institutional Research, Analysis and Planning Office, UH System
• Kalei Rapoza, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, UH Hilo
• Alan Rosenfeld, Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Policy, UH System, co-chair
• Stephen Schatz, Executive Director, Hawaiʻi P-20 , UH System and State Director of Career and Technical Education, UH System
• Wendy Sora, Director of the Career Center, UH Mānoa
• Della Teraoka, Vice President for Community Colleges, UHCC System

System/Campus Leads

• Michael Bruno, Provost, UH Mānoa
  • Chris Sabine, Interim Vice Provost for Research & Scholarship, UH Mānoa
  • Chad Walton, Assistant Vice Provost for Research & Scholarship, UH Mānoa
• Bonnie Irwin, Chancellor UH Hilo
• Maenette Benham, Chancellor, UH West Oʻahu
• Della Teraoka, Acting Vice President and Associate Vice President (for Academic Affairs), UHCC
  • Joshua Kaakua, Academic Affairs Program Officer, UHCC

Support Leads

• Steve Auerbach, Interim Director, Office of Innovation and Commercialization, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System
• Steven Bond-Smith, Assistant Professor, UH Economic Research Organization (UHERO), UH Mānoa
• Kamuela Enos, Director, Office of Indigenous Knowledge & Innovation, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System
• Kevin Hanaoka, Director, Cost Studies and Data Analytics, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System
• Eric Matsunaga, Director, Research and Administrative Operations, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System

Hub Teams

• Climate Resilience
  • Suzanne Case, Director, Office of Land and Ocean Conservation Futures, UH System
  • Makena Coffman, Director, Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, UH Mānoa
  • Chip Fletcher, Interim Dean, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, UH Mānoa
  • Rick Rocheleau, Director, Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute, UH Mānoa
• Energy and Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Makena Coffman, Director, Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, UH Mānoa
  • Rick Rocheleau, Director, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute, UH Mānoa
• Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Jennifer Griswold, Department Chair & Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, UH Mānoa
  • Dave Karl, Victor and Peggy Brandstrom Pavel Professor of Microbial Oceanography & Director, Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education (C-MORE), UH Mānoa
  • Niklas Schneider, Director, International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) & Professor, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, UH Mānoa
  • Donald Thomas, Geochemist, Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology & Director of Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV), UH Mānoa
• Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Christian Andersen, Director of Research, Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES), UH Hilo
  • Heather Kaluna, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UH Hilo
  • Doug Simons, Director, Institute for Astronomy, UH Mānoa
  • Robert Wright, Director, Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
• Data Sciences and Global Cybersecurity
  • Jodi Ito, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System
  • Chris Lee, Director, Academy for Creative Media, UH Mānoa
  • Michael Miranda, Assistant Professor of Information Security and Assurance, UH West Oʻahu
  • Scott Robertson, Chair, Information and Computer Sciences, UH Mānoa
• Health and Wellness
  • Aimee Grace, Director, Office of Strategic Health Initiatives, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System
  • Chad Walton, Assistant Vice Provost for Research & Scholarship, UH Mānoa
• Food Security and Agriculture
  • Norman Arancon, Director & Professor, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management, UH Hilo
  • Walter Bowen, Associate Dean & Associate Director for Research, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR), UH Mānoa
  • Darren Lerner, Director, Sea Grant College Program, UH Mānoa
  • Noa Lincoln, Associate Researcher, Komohana Research & Extension Center, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience, UH Mānoa
  • Albie Miles, Associate Professor, Sustainable Community Food Systems, UH West Oʻahu
• Asia-Pacific and Hawaiʻi
  • Kristi Govella, Assistant Professor and Director, Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, UH Mānoa
  • Alex Mawyer, Center Director and Associate Professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH Mānoa
  • Aaron Salā, Assistant Specialist, Student Affairs, UH West Oʻahu
  • Ray Shirkhodai, Executive Director, Pacific Disaster Center