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2018 President’s Emerging Leaders Program cohort

The University of Hawaiʻi has selected the 2018–2019 cohort for the President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP), whose members are now tasked with tackling the challenges facing the university and higher education. This year’s cohort consists of 27 university employees with representation from each of UH’s ten campuses and the system.

The program provides a professional development opportunity for highly motivated faculty and staff to develop leadership skills and make a difference at UH. Participants will benefit from the opportunity to access career and leadership interests, and examine strategic goals and challenges facing the public higher education system.

“We are proud to select this year’s cohort and look forward to continuing to invest in our own faculty and staff,” said UH President David Lassner. “Previous PELP participants have already made a difference throughout the university, and we expect to see many great accomplishments from the people chosen this year as some of them advance into leadership positions throughout the UH System.”

Content areas covered by PELP include strategic considerations in statewide goals across all aspects of the UH mission; higher education trends in a highly dynamic local, national and global context; and a focus on the distinctiveness of Hawaiʻi’s unique public higher education system.

PELP participants also engage in team projects, mentored by senior executives, that are directly focused on the challenges and opportunities facing UH and Hawaiʻi.

PELP was launched in 2007 under President David McClain and continued through 2010. It was restarted in 2014 by Lassner after he became president.

Cohort 2018–2019

  • Christine Beaule, UH Mānoa
  • Eunice Brekke, Leeward CC
  • Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, UH Mānoa
  • Victoria Fan, UH Mānoa
  • Davilla Gose, UH Mānoa
  • Gary Holton, UH Mānoa
  • Lisa Kanae, Kapiʻolani CC
  • Chelsea Kay-Wong, UH Hilo
  • May Kealoha, Kapiʻolani CC
  • Sunyoung Kim, UH Hilo
  • Sandra Knighton, Kauaʻi CC
  • Kristine Kotecki, Hawaiʻi CC
  • Stephanie Kraft-Terry, UH Mānoa
  • Ross Langston, Windward CC
  • Noa Lincoln, UH Mānoa
  • Punihei Lipe, UH Mānoa
  • Timothy Moore, UH Hilo
  • Kelli Nakamura, Kapiʻolani CC
  • Gloria Niles, UH West Oʻahu
  • Wayde Oshiro, Leeward CC
  • Christian Palmer, Windward CC
  • Cheryl Reeser, UH Maui College
  • Brent Rubio, Honolulu CC
  • Thomas Scheiding, UH West Oʻahu
  • Jean Schneider, UH System
  • Kwanglim Seo, UH Mānoa
  • Chad Walton, UH Mānoa
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