Hawaii Book & Music Festival

Makena Coffman is the Director for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience. She is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Research Fellow with the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization, and Chair of the City & County... Read More →

Celeste Connors, Executive Director, Hawai'i Green Growth Local2030 Hub, has twenty years of experience working at the intersection of economic, environment, energy, and international development policy. She previously served as the Director for Environment and Climate Change at the... Read More →

 Matthew Gonser serves as the City and County of Honolulu Chief Resilience Officer and Executive Director of the City’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency. He joined the City and the Resilience Office in October 2017 and previously served as Coastal and Water... Read More →

Anukriti (Anu) Hittle staffs the state of Hawai'i’s Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, and is Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center. Prior to that she was a climate change researcher with the World Resources Institute, an activist at Greenpeace, and an instructor... Read More →