Leadership Team
Our leadership team is made up of members from each sustainable planning region or ahupua’a with a 1 year commitment.
Description: They provided ongoing strategic guidance for the group, reviews the agenda, and supports key decision making on behalf of the Community of Practice. Leadership team members also attends monthly virtual gatherings when they are able to join to support and share directly.
Next Generation Leaders
Our next generation leaders are emerging young leaders under 35 years of age from community organizations, schools, and youth networks across Oʻahu. Participants serve a one-year term focused on mentorship, leadership development, and applied learning, and make up the Next Generation Youth Leaders Working Group.
Description: They strive to cultivate the next wave of resilience and sustainability leaders engaged in neighborhoods across O’ahu. Members engage in peer learning, mentorship along side experienced practitioners, and hands-on projects that strengthen local resilience. NG Leaders serve as a bridge between community youth perspectives and the broader Oʻahu Resilience Hub Learning Community. They meet monthly at the HLC Virtual Gatherings and contribute to community events and initiatives.
Advisory Council
Our advisory council is made up of 10-12 members representing key sectors, partner organizations, and community voices. Members serve staggered two-year terms to ensure continuity and fresh perspectives. They meets quarterly (or more often as needed).
Description:
Our HLC Advisory Council Partners Provide strategic and systems-level guidance to the Oʻahu Resilience Hub Learning Community. They Advise on priorities, partnerships, and alignment with regional and island-wide resilience goals. They supports cross-sector collaboration, identify emerging opportunities, and ensure community perspectives are centered in all major initiatives of the community of practice.
Current Advisory Council Partners
- Sarah Harris (CCSR – Hazards)
- Jason Shon (CCSR – Food)
- Janice Ikeda (Vibrant Hawaii)
- Jennifer Walters (DEM)
- Alex Naranjos (OER)
- John Vierra (HI-EMA)
- Christy Nishida, (Kupuna Collective)
Cultural Advisory Council (forming now)
8–10 members representing cultural practitioners, knowledge keepers, and community leaders from across Oʻahu. Members serve rotating two-year terms and may be nominated by partner organizations or community networks.
Meets twice a year
Description:
When land and sea are well, people are well, malama ‘āina (taking care of the land) are ancient risk-reduction tools as we restore lo’i, fishponds, cleaning our streams to prevent flooding and protect from impending sea level rise and all guided by kūpuna (elders). Guided by the ancestral knowledge and profound cultural integrity of our kupuna from across the ahupuaʻa, this council will provide the essential cultural grounding and guidance from our kupuna and Nina for all initiatives. By upholding values like lōkahi and actively pursuing mālama ʻāina through the restoration of our loʻi, loko iʻa and streams, we ensure that our resilience strategies are culturally responsive, intergenerational and bring deep purpose to our communities.