Board of Directors

Akiemi Glenn

Director

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Raised in the rural US South with genealogical ties to the forests and coastal areas of lands now known North Carolina and Virginia, Dr. Akiemi Glenn is a Honolulu-based scholar and culture worker. As a linguist who works in Indigenous language revitalization, filmmaker, artist, and cultural practitioner, Akiemi’s work engages concepts of culture, race, and belonging at the intersections of art, social justice, and education. She is the founder and executive director of the Pōpolo Project, a community organization whose mission is to redefine what it means to be Black in Hawai‘i through cultivating connections between individuals, our communities, our ancestors, and the land, highlighting the vivid, complex diversity of Black cultures and identities in the Pacific and around the world.

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Amber McClure

Treasurer and Director

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Amber's documentary short film Finding Dohi (2020) screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, including the Hawaii International Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Amber's commitment to elevating the roles of women in the film industry is evident through her involvement on the board of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking. She has been an educator since 2015, teaching English and Japan-Hawai‘i history to international students at Kaua‘i Community College. Currently pursuing a PhD in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, she is dedicated to furthering her knowledge and professional development.

 

Anne Weber-Yarbrough

President and Director

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Anne Weber-Yarbrough is committed to community and equity-- she is a non-profit leader, entrepreneur, and educator with a strong drive toward social impact and equitable outcomes. She believes that everyone has a role to play in this work and strives for this vision in her personal life, volunteer roles, and professional life. She is currently the Managing Director of Regional Initiatives at Teach For America Hawaiʻi, a national non-profit dedicated to the vision that one day all children will receive an excellent and equitable education. 

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Celine Casamina

Director

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Celine was born and raised in Hawaiʻi, and grew up with a strong tie to family values – as well as the family business founded by her parents. The Casamina family started the mortgage company, House of Finance, with the goal of helping families reach their dreams of owning a home. Celine spent summers with her siblings helping at the family business – starting at the copy machine, and working her way up to interacting with clients – and very early on was inspired by the entrepreneurial mindset and work ethic of her parents. Celine began her own business career in the startup economy, with her early experience leading the business development efforts of a freshly-launched software app which was accepted into the cohort of a premier startup incubator. Celine was actively involved in the launch of one of Hawaii’s early co-working spaces, leading the Hawaii division of a larger Southern California based operation. Through this role she gained extensive experience in property and project management, sales and marketing, business operations, and the ability to work with a diverse clientele base.  As a Senior Consultant at BCR, Celine uses her expertise to work with various clients in Hawaiʻi and California across the private, public and non-profit sectors, ranging in industry and size from $1M-$200M in annual revenue. She supports their strategic planning, leadership succession, leadership development, team development, and operational efforts. She is particularly involved in BCR’s family business practice and supports families with succession planning, governance structure development, and family dynamics. Celine has studied at the University of San Francisco, and the American Business School of Paris, and holds a degree in Marketing and Management from the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Celine has served on the boards of a private multi-generation family business, as well as a local non-profit, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Loyola Marymount University Family Business Entrepreneurship Center. As the Vice President of Women Leaders in Family Enterprises 501(c)(3), Celine is involved in conducting research, developing programming, and nurturing strategic partnerships to help fulfill the WLife mission.

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Hilary Hacker

Vice-President and Director

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Hilary Hacker has a master’s degree in Strategic Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Community Organizing. She has worked at Kapi'olani Community College since 2017 with the Community Health Worker Certificate Program as a lecturer and program coordinator and is is now the Director of the Community Health Education Program. Hilary has worked in the grassroots and social services sphere of community health in many capacities, from outreach worker to health and community educator. She has worked with communities throughout the West Coast, Hawai'i and internationally from Guatemala to Palestine with a focus on humanizing complex global issues including immigrant, indigenous, land and water rights. She uses platforms as diverse as writing, photography, mural design, videography, web and graphic design. She is fluent in Spanish. Hilary is also a Co-Founder and Producer with Sovereign Lens LLC and is on the board of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking.​

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Kim Kamaluokeakua Moa

Director

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Kim Kamaluokeakua Moa was born on Maui and raised in ʻEwa Moku on Oʻahu. A documentary photographer by trade, Kim has a passion for social justice and visual storytelling through an ʻōiwi lens. She worked as a freelance photographer in Boston, New York, and Hawai’i for several years after attending Boston University College of Communication for a master’s program in photojournalism. Kim's love of photography began 20+ years ago in the B&W photo lab in the basement of Midkiff Library at Kamehameha Schools. A veteran graduate of KS, where she attended from K-12 grade, Kim also holds a bachelor’s degree in studio art & psychology from the University of Puget Sound. She is currently the Narrative Change DirectorNarrative Change Director at Hawaiʻi Investment Ready (HIR). Prior to the HRI, Kim worked as Communications Director at the ACLU of Hawaiʻi where she championed storytelling that centers the voices of those most impacted and elevates those most marginalized, and with Kuaʻaina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA), a local nonprofit that empowers grassroots community advocacy and environmental stewardship by supporting natural resource management networks working toward ʻāina momona – rich abundant, productive land and waters that support community wellbeing. She spent 9 years documenting the work of mālama ʻāina practitioners with KUA and 6 years as their Communications Coordinator. In her work uplifting the stories of communities across the paeʻāina, she has been especially interested in cultivating a journalism/communications practice that honors cultural protocols and indigenous values rooted in mālama for that which feeds our communities. In her current work, she strives to empower others to tell their own stories and manifest a vision of abundance in their own lives, for their ʻohana, and for all Hawaiʻi peoples and places. She believes our collective work is to make the world a more just, equitable, and abundant place for our children and generations to follow.

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Meeta Vu

Director

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Meeta has been an entrepreneur for 20+ years. Out of the box thinking is her super power for her contribution to the various

businesses she has helped build. From sales, space design and community relationships – she is a creative and sees light and opportunity in likely and unlikely places.

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