Dr. Trina Orimoto describes herself as a scientist-practitioner-activist. Currently, Dr. Orimoto is the Deputy Director of the State of Hawai‘i Office of Wellness and Resilience. Until recently, she served as a staff psychologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Prior to that, Dr. Orimoto led the Program Improvement and Communications Office at the Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division. While there, Dr. Orimoto championed the division’s research, legislative, policy, and strategic communications efforts. She also supervised student research and clinical work and would often pinch hit as a clinical lead at local Family Guidance Centers. Her research centers on understanding practice patterns and evidence-based treatments in community mental health settings. Dr. Orimoto is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Jason T. Okuhama has worked his entire professional career in the banking, commercial and consumer lending industry spanning the past 41 years. For the past 23 years he has been self-employed and specializes primarily in USDA Rural Development, US Small Business Administration and USDA Farm Service Agency loan programs. Jason was the Board President of HACBED for 22 years.

Marcus Kawatachi has worked almost his entire career at the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, the agency that enforces the State's antidiscrimination laws in the areas of employment, housing, state services, and public accommodations. He currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, providing direct supervision to its legal and investigative staff. As a member of the HACBED board Marcus hopes to continue to assist individuals and families in creating opportunities to live their lives as they choose. He is a proud graduate of Princeton University and the William S. Richardson School of Law.

Derrick reconnected with HACBED by joining the board at the end of 2020. From 2000 - 2005, he worked at HACBED supporting its capacity-building training and technical assistance initiatives. He’s since spent the last 17 years working in Hawai‘i’s agriculture sector, including work at MA‘O Organic Farms, The Kohala Center, and GoFarm Hawai‘i. Derrick currently lives on Kauaʻi and is the Farm Manager at the University of Hawai‘i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Kaua‘i Agriculture and Extension Station. He remains passionate about agriculture and community development issues in Hawai‘i and also serves on the board of Mala‘ai and HuiMAU (Hui Mālama i ke Ala ‘Ūlili) on Hawai‘i Island.

Miwa has served environmental and economic justice efforts in non-profit, private and public sectors, for over 20 years, including as a Co-Founder and Co-Director of backbone organization KUA (Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo) and advocacy non-profit Executive Director of KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance. Miwa holds a joint- B.A./M.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California. Miwa is currently serving the Co-CEO at Hawaiʻi Investment Ready (HIR), a social impact finance intermediary. At HACBED, Miwa hopes to contribute to HACBED’s long legacy of supporting community economic self-determination, and the vision of its founders.

Philip Garboden is a professor at The University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Phil's primary research focuses on how landlords, developers, and property managers – respond to state, local, and federal housing policy in ways that exacerbate the structural marginalization of low-income and non-white communities. Prior to his position at The University of Chicago, Phil was the inaugural HCRC Professor in Affordable Housing Economics, Policy, and Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Harmonee Williams is the Project Director for the Island Remote Area Regional Food Business Center. Prior to this role, Harmonee co-founded and served as Executive Director of Sustʻāinable Molokaʻi and also served as President of the Hawaiʻi Good Food Alliance. She holds a BA from Yale University and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.