our team

staff

Dean & Michele Wilhelm

Executive Co-Directors

Kirsten Hollenbeck

Operations Manager

Kazu Akiona-Bannan

Hoa ʻĀina - Farm Operations Specialist

Kaulana Kealoha-Hanawahine

Alakaʻi Loʻi

Gil Shukrun

Financial Assistant

Loke-Teurikan Vakatuku

Financial Assistant

Claudia Mena Rieke

Outreach Coordinator

Tara Flynn

President

Managing Member of Aonalu, LLC

Mark Kunimune

Director

Program Director Emergency Medical Services, Kapi‘olani Community College (RET)

Ryan Young

Director

Fire Chief (RET), Contractor

Kaʻanohiokalā Kalama-Macomber

Director

Office of Hawaiian Education, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Kathy Thurston

Director

General Contractor (RET)

Brook Emanuel

Director

Co-Founder & Director, Hele Fitness

Lisa Maruyama

Director

President and CEO, Hawaiʻi Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations

Mike Wilson

Director

Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice (RET)