2024-06-18 PL-INT-2024-007988 HACBED Category PL.3

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Bob Agres has more than 20 years of community and economic development experience. He served as HACBED's Executive Director from 1992 to 2012. He previously served as Maui County's Director of Housing& Human Concerns, the City& County of Honolulu's Director of Housing& Community Development and Deputy Director for Community Services, and Coordinator for the State CBED Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. He teaches graduate level courses in community-based planning, community-based economic development, and social policy and planning at the University of Hawai`i's Department of Urban & Regional Planning and was awarded the 2009 Planner 1Vho Made a DffferenceAward by UH-DURP and the American Planning Association's Hawai`i Chapter. He was a former member of the Editorial Board and a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Nonprofit Quarterly (a national publication);has been honored for nonprofit leadership by the Hawai`i Community Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World (regional finalist);and has an M.S. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University. Donavan Kealoha is the Chief Executive Officer of Asio Corporation and is a technology entrepreneur and community organizer. While a graduate student, he co-founded Adama Materials, Inc., a material science company spun out of the University of Hawaii,which raised nearly$5 million to advance its technologies to enhance the performance of composite materials. While leading Adama, Donavan was also president of Lanaians for Sensible Growth, a grassroots community organization focused on advocacy of the community's role in economic development. Most recently, Donavan co-founded Asio Corporation. Donavan is a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law and the Shidler College of Business. In 2010, he was recognized as a "Forty under 40" recipient for Pacific Business News. Jason Okuhama (Board President) has worked his entire professional career in the banking, commercial and consumer lending industry spanning the past 41 years. For the past 22 years he has been self-employed and specializes primarily in USDA Rural Development, US Small Business Administration and USDA Farm Service Agency loan programs.Jason has been the Board President of HACBED for the past 22 years. Trina Orimoto (Board Vice-President) describes herself as a scientist-practitioner-activist and currently serves as a staff psychologist at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Until recently, she led the Program Improvement and Communications Office at the Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division. While there, Dr. Orimoto championed the division's research, legislative, policy, and strategic communications efforts. She also supervised student research and clinical work and would often pinch hit as a clinical lead at local Family Guidance Centers. Her research centers on understanding practice patterns and evidence-based treatments in community mental health settings. Dr. Orimoto is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Marcus Kawatachi(Board Treasurer) has worked almost his entire career at the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, the agency that enforces the State's antidiscrimination laws in the areas of employment, housing, state services, and public accommodations. He currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, providing direct supervision to its legal 16