08/11/2025
🌺 A Decade of Empowering Women — Welcome Cohort 10 Mink Leaders! 🌺
With deep pride and aloha is excited to announce the 21 incredible women selected for Cohort 10 of the Patsy T. Mink Leadership Alliance 💫
• Mahea Alcon (VP Payment Services Manager, American Savings Bank)
• Dannah Barnes (Exec. Dir. Read To Me International Foundation)
• Cecily Ching (VP & Mgr, Trust Real Estate Services, First Hawaiian Bank)
• Shayna Decker (Dir. Government and Community Affairs – Maui County, Hawaiian Electric)
• Bianca Fairburn (Sr. Enlisted Leader, Hawai‘i Air National Guard)
• Nichole Field (Upper School Principal, St. Andrew’s Schools)
• Chantel Fonseca (Sr. Program Consultant, Customer Experience, Bank of Hawai‘i)
• Kimberly Fujita (Sr. Mgr. Service Delivery & Operations – Advanced Services, Hawaiian Telcom)
• Lana Gurianova (Financial Mgr., Pacific Gateway Center)
• Pōlani Moʻokini (Sr. Communications Mgr., Under My Umbrella Inc.)
• Miyuki Noji (SVP & Dir., International Private Banking, Central Pacific Bank)
• Vivian Pham (Community Health Operations Lead, Kaiser Permanente)
• Jodi Robinson (Policy Dir., Hawaiʻi Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations - HANO)
• Kapiolani Street (Mgr. - Engineering & Site Development, Castle & Cooke Homes Hawai‘i, Inc.)
• Bev Tagami (Sr. Interior Designer, WCIT)
• Summer Uwono (CFO, Partners in Development Foundation)
• Christy Valledor (VP of Organizational Development, HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union)
• Francel Visini (Dir. of Fiscal Services/Finance, Shriners Children’s Hawai‘i)
• Cheryl Wallick (Nutrition Educator, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa - Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program)
• Aga Westfal-Conboy (VP of Marketing and Communications, Aloha United Way)
• Amanda Woo (COO, Hawai‘i Pacific Health Medical Group, Hawai‘i Pacific Health)
This year is extra special as we celebrate 10 years of uplifting wāhine leaders 💖
To our newest cohort: we see your strength, your passion, and your potential. We can’t wait to walk alongside you on this journey. 🌿✨