Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE/OFFICERS

President

Ralph Whitaker III, Database Administrator, Tripler Army Medical Center

Acting Vice President

Don Farmer, Human Resources Director, Wilson Care Group

Treasurer

James Myers, baker at Breadshop, singer, pianist, organist

Secretary

“Cuyote” Corey Harkins, Science Teacher at Hawaii Department of Education

Members at Large

The Reverend Johanna Kelly, Associate Minister / Ministry Administrator, Unity Church of Hawai‘i

Allan Jim, Founder and Artistic Director of the Ektopia art gallery

ADVISORY BOARD

  • Dr. Timothy Carney, Associate Professor of Music, Chaminade University

  • Dr. Miguel Felipe, Assistant Professor of Music & Director of Choral Activities, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

  • Jack Law, Owner, Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand; Co-Founder, Life Foundation; Founder, Rainbow Film Festival

  • Gigi Lee, Photographer, Musical Theater Director, Musician & Theater Instructor

  • Dr. Brenden Leomo Kim, Chiropractor

  • Tricia Marciel, Singer, Performer, Actress

  • Laurence Paxton, Director of Music & Department Chair, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

  • Jill Radke, Actor & Performer; Senior Communications Consultant, Kaiser Permanente

  • John Rampage, Artistic Director, Diamond Head Theatre & 35-time Po‘okela Award Winner for Excellence in Theater

  • John Renke, Canon Precentor  and Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Andrew (retired)

  • Willie Sabel, Technical Director, Diamond Head Theatre

  • Rev. Pam Vessels, Community Organizer; Co-Director, Harm Reduction Hawai‘i

  • Dr. Jonathan Vrban, Doctor of Nursing Practice (retired), Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions

  • Kumu Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu, Cultural Practitioner; Chair, State of Hawai‘i Historic Preservation – O‘ahu Island Burial Council

  •  Alethea Train, Vocal Ensemble/Dance, School of the Arts, Mid Pacific Institute

  • Diane Koshi, Choral Director, Hawai‘i Youth Opera Chorus & Founding Director, La Sorellanza

  • Susan McCreary Duprey, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Windward Choral Society on O‘ahu and the Kona Choral Society on the island of Hawai‘i