BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kilin Reece - Executive Director, Founder, Lutheologist, Musician

Noah Ha’alilio Solomon - President, Instructor Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language, Graduate student, PhD, Linguistics, Owner/Translator Ho’opulapula, LLC
Aloha McGuffie - Treasurer, Executive Vice President Ulumau Foundation & Immediate past manager Mānoa Heritage Center
Jan Hanley Taketa - Director, Speech Pathologist, Board member RYSE

Andrew W. Char - Secretary

ADVISORY BOARD

Maestro Aaron Mahi - Director Honolulu Symphony and Royal Hawaiian Band
Raiatea Mokihana Maile Helm - Musician, Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust

Ānuenue Pūnua - Executive Director of Mailikukahi Aina Momona Academy, Educator at Kamehameha Schools, Haku Mele

Andrea Eden Low - Associate Curator, Pacific, Auckland Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Dr. Greg Reish - Director Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
DeSoto Brown - Historian, Bishop Museum
Dr. Puakea Nogelmeier PhD. - Composer, Director -Awaiaulu Foundation
Dr. Niklaus Schweizer- PhD. Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
Dr. Ricardo Trimillos - PhD. Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i Mānoa
Dr. Jay Junker - PhD. Ethnomusicology, University of Hawai’i Mānoa
Puka Asing - Musician, Haku Mele, Kumu Hula - Halau Kualiʻi
Kathryn Harada - Conservation Fellow, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Toni Lee - Director, Friends of the Royal Hawaiian Band, Hawaiʻi Music Hall of Fame
William D. Souza - High Chief, Lani Aliʻi KGCK Royal Order Of Kamehameha 1, Friends of The Royal Hawaiian Band

David Bonsey - Owner of New York Violin Consulting, Inc. He has been a contributor to Forbes, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Strad and Strings. Candidate for Certified Appraiser Membership in the Appraiser's Association of America.