David Arakawa

Dave Arakawa is the Executive Director of the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii (LURF), which is a private, non-profit research and trade association whose members include major Hawaii landowners, developers and a major utility company. Mr. Arakawa has had experience with Native Hawaiian rights, land use, environmental laws, government at all levels, a broad based legal practice and a strong commitment to the local community. Throughout his career, he has been involved in numerous professional, civic and community activities. WSRSL Class of 1981

Pamela Bunn

Pamela Bunn is an attorney at Paul, Johnson, Park and Niles and practices in the areas of commercial litigation and counseling. Ms. Bunn has represented clients in a wide range of disputes, including a law firm in a complex legal malpractice action, a borrower in a lender liability suit and an association in a contested case hearing involving development rights. Ms. Bunn’s experience also encompasses appellate litigation, including administrative appeals. WSRSL Class of 1995

Kevin Chang

Kevin Chang is the Trust for Public Land’s Hawaiian Islands Program Field Representative. The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.

Alexa Cole

Alexa Cole is responsible for prosecuting all civil administrative penalty and forfeiture cases for National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Hawaii region working closely with NOAA Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure that they handle enforcement issues in the region in a coordinated and cohesive manner. Ms. Cole works with the NOAA program offices on regulatory issues involving the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Lacey Act and National Marine Sanctuaries Act. She also works on international issues involving the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the South Pacific Tuna Treaty.

Robert Harris

Robert D. Harris works for Damon, Key, Kupchak, Hastert and practices civil litigation, with a specific interest in environmental law and land use. Mr. Harris has litigated and counseled clients with CERCLA, Underground Storage Tanks, the Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Air Act. Mr. Harris has been involved in litigation of environmental matters in the Federal District Court and the Board of Land and Natural Resources. He is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law. WSRSL Class of 2002

Lea Hong

Lea Hong is the Hawaiian Islands Program Director for The Trust for Public Land. Ms. Hong litigated complex land, water, and cultural preservation/access disputes on behalf of Hawaiian and environmental organizations at the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund and in private practice as a partner and associate in the Honolulu law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing. Honolulu Magazine recognized her as one Hawai‘i's best lawyers in environmental law. Ms. Hong is also an adjunct professor at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law. WSRSL Class of 1991

Lane Hornfeck

Lane Hornfeck is a director at Starn, O’Toole, Marcus & Fisher and concentrates her practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation and real estate-related litigation. Ms. Hornfeck has represented a variety of clients, ranging from multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses and individuals in a variety of legal matters, including construction, and real estate litigation among others. She has experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution forums. WSRSL Class of 1998

Lindsey Kasperowicz

Lindsey Kasperowicz works as counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District Office. The Honolulu District is a full-service district, well prepared to provide a wide range of timely, effective, innovative solutions to meet the corps engineering, construction and environmental needs. Honolulu District offers project management, design, construction management, contracting, cost engineering and more. WSRSL Class of 2005

Jody Kaulukukui

Jody Kaulukukui is Senior Protection Specialist at the Nature Conservancy Hawaii Program. The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. They use a science-based approach and pursue non-confrontational, pragmatic solutions to conservation challenges. The Nature Conservancy partners with indigenous communities, businesses, governments, multilateral institutions, other non-profits and private citizens. WSRSL Class of 1998.

Koa Kaulukukui

Koa Kaulukukui is an attorney for Earthjustice's Honolulu office. Koa prepared for a career in environmental law by externing at Hawai'i's Department of Land of and Natural Resources, the Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, Earthjustice's Honolulu office, and with Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Clifton. After law school, Koa worked for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Native Rights Land and Culture division, where she assisted in protecting Native Hawaiian rights from the impacts of development. WSRSL Class of 2006

Katherine Kealoha

Kathy Kealoha is the Director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC). OEQC helps to stimulate, expand and coordinate efforts to maintain the optimum quality of the State's environment. OEQC implements Ch. 343, HRS Environmental Impact Statements. At the request of the Governor, the Director of OEQC is empowered to coordinate and direct State agencies in matters concerning environmental quality. WSRSL Class of 1995

Sharon Lovejoy

Sharon Lovejoy is a Director at Starn, O’Toole, Marcus & Fisher and is experienced in representing clients in real estate transactions and other area of practiced. Ms. Lovejoy has represented various business interests, from multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses and individual interests, in legal matters including real estate site acquisition, real estate litigation, construction disputes, and landlord and tenant matters. She has extensive experience in both state and federal courts, and has handled cases before appellate courts and in alternative dispute resolution forums.

Kamaile Nichols

Kamaile Nichols is the 2008-09 Marine Law Fellow for the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). As a student, Ms. Nichols was the Co-Director of the Environmental Law Society, member of the International Environmental Law Moot Court Team, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the University of Hawai`i Law Review. WSRSL Class of 2008

Kanale Sadowski

Kanale Sadowski works as counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District Office. The Honolulu District is a full-service district, well prepared to provide a wide range of timely, effective, innovative solutions to meet the corps engineering, construction and environmental needs. Honolulu District offers project management, design, construction management, contracting, cost engineering and more. WSRSL Class of 2005

Kapua Sproat

Kapua Sproat is Counsel for Earthjustice's Mid-Pacific Office and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law teaching with the Environmental Law Program and the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. As part of the Earthjustice team, Ms. Sproat litigated state and federal environmental cases under the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, State Water Code and various Hawai'i environmental laws. WSRSL Class of 1998

Martha Townsend

Martha “Marti” Townsend is KAHEA’s primary advocate for the strongest possible protections in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, proper stewardship for the sacred summit of Mauna Kea, and the new Environmental Justice Program. While clerking at the Honolulu Office of Earthjustice, Ms. Townsend helped research and draft pleadings against the U.S. Army for failing to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. She also helped draft a submittal to the Water Commission on the wasting of water in the Na Wai ‘Eha watershed on Maui. WSRSL Class of 2005

Wil Yamamoto

Wil Yamamoto is an associate at Starn, O’Toole, Marcus & Fisher and concentrates his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation and construction litigation, and has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of commercial disputes, including contract, real estate and land use, business organization, and construction defect. Mr. Yamamoto has represented a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses, condominium associations, and private individuals in a variety of legal matters. WSRSL Class of 2002