• Serve as faculty member of University's Co-Curricular Activities, Programs and Services (CAPS) department, which provides extra-curricular experiences for 14,000 students.
• Advise student media programs involving up to 100 students and $750,000 in combined budgets; primarily for Ka Leo O Hawai`i, a daily newspaper and website (www.kaleo.org) that averages 40,000 hits a month. Also advise Hawai`i Review, a literary journal, and Ka Lamakua, an on-line site for creative expression. Formerly advised KTUH, a year-round FM radio station (http://ktuh.org).
• Give students advice on training, management, hiring, budgeting, personnel, reporting for print and on-line, editing, design, advertising, staff recruitment and retention, media law, job hunting, marketing, procurement, programming, and Federal Communication Commission compliance.
• Provide annual leadership development training for students involved in co-curricular activities; specializing in EEO, supervisory management, public relations, and media issues.
• Acted as University liaison for KTUH campus concerts (Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Beck, No Doubt, Tool).
• Revived and completed 15-year, $70,000 effort to upgrade FM station from 100 watts to 3,000 watts, which required coordinating work with Board of Regents, Federal Communications Commission, Facilities Office, structural and radio engineers, architect, general contractor, subs. Also initiated effort to relocate translator to new frequency and location.
• Initiated and nominated students for national radio contests, which resulted in first and second place awards in production (College Broadcasters, Inc., 2001) and a $10,000 award to the station and staffer for her outstanding work (Scripps Howard Foundation Outstanding Staffer, 2001).
• Prepared annual budgets, monthly reconciliations and variances. Handled bid processes for equipment and construction. Headed screening committees for departmental hiring.
• Enhanced University recruitment and outreach by establishing annual, three-day journalism workshop for high school students through a yearbook company partnership.
• Recognized as College Media Advisers' Four Year Honor Roll Multi-Media Adviser for 2000.

• Finished 250-page book, Na Mamo: Hawaiian People Today (Honolulu: `Ai Pohaku Press).
• Won 1997 Book of the Year and Excellence in Hawaiian Culture and Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing honors from Hawai`i Book Publishers Association.
• Supervised mother’s post-stroke health care from 1995 until her death in December 1998.

• Coordinated media outreach and publicity for Honolulu mayoral candidate Gary Gill.
• Responsible for press strategies: releases, conferences, debates, staged and unrehearsed events.

• Served as media liaison and oversaw project that televised live Council meetings.
• Implemented computerized Bulletin Board System for public.
• Coordinated Council's community meetings, two island conferences and intervention in state Public Utilities Commission hearings on communication technologies.

• Produced quarterly, four-color newsletter, Pulse of the Pacific.
• Managed newsletter's writing, editing, photographs, design, layout, printing, mailing, and Intercon's national advertising.

• Researched Na Mamo: Hawaiian People Today.
• Oversaw manuscript's editing, fundraising, website, and eventual marketing.
• Developed, with Bishop Museum and State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, a traveling exhibit of Anne K. Landgraf’s photographs for the book.

• Reported for 105,000-circulation morning newspaper.
• Beats included government, Hawaiian affairs and culture, education, arts, and general assignment. Headed investigations of racism, homelessness, and tourism fraud.
• Worked as Progress Edition section editor; state and night city editor.
• Wrote, edited and designed pages for feature, travel, and food sections.

• Oversaw Graduate School of Journalism's Broadcast Lab.

• Worked as general assignment staff writer for Honolulu's afternoon daily.

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. New York City.

Graduated May 1979 with Master’s Degree. Overseas Press Club Scholarship.

Graduated May 1978 with Bachelor's Degree Cum Laude in Political Science.

Editor, The Catalyst. Chair, Cutler Publications. President, Inter-Fraternity Council.

Member, Blue Key. Secretary, Senior Class.

Graduated May 1974 with honors. Editor, The Surfrider.