Our Former Board of Directors (To be updated Feb 2022):

Jeremy K. Hopkins is the current Aide to Trustee Robert K. Lindsey, Jr., Hawai`i Island Trustee for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. He is also a Commissioner for the Hawaiian Homes Commission representing Oahu.

He also sits as a member of the Local School Board for Kanu O Ka Aina Charter School and is a co-cordinator for Ka Mauli Hou –" Hawaii Restoration and Conservation Initiative. His mantra that he tries to live by is “Be a Servant Leader”.

His professional career has included work as a Teacher (Pre-School, Elementary, Secondary, College and Adult Education), a book writer, a Community Builder, and an entertainer. Jeremy is one-third of the Hawaiian music trio known as Holunape.

Kaneohe is his hometown and he is a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools, and a father of three.

The Reverend Dr. Matthew Kanani Baker is the Executive Director of the Mind Body Institute and Administrator of the National Board of Certified Hypnotherapy and the current V.P. of the Native Hawaiian Education O'ahu Island Council. Kanani also maintains a private practice in counseling and is an ordained minister who performs sacerdotal service in the community.

Kanani Baker serves as Secretary of the Heiau o Kuhio, a non-profit corporation (501c3) that was formed to "malama" (protect, preserve and nurture Hawaiians, their language and culture.) As a result they service the homeless and economically challenged community via grants and public donations.

He received and administered a USDOE grant for four years to help incarcerated individuals make the transition to college, offering college courses designed to the help those individuals to culturally reconnect their communities and start taking college courses. (He also served as Director of the Program.)

He is an active member of the Royal Order of Kamehameha. He has served as Master of the Honolulu Lodge of Free and Accepted Mason. He was a University of Hawaii-Windward Community College Counselor and has also served on numerous Boards, including the Hawaii Hypnotherapy Association, Mamo Hawaii University (MAU), and served a President of the National Guide of Hypnotist, Aloha Chapter.

Kanani Baker is a product of the community, having graduated from Castle High School, and received degrees from Windward Community College, Hawaii Pacific University and Chaminade University.

Myah Moore Irick is the Vice President of Business Development for EDM Inc. and OAI Inc., focused on the launch of their newest service "eDean" in New York City. In addition, she acts as a fundraising consultant for growing non-profits, and strategic philanthropy consultant for individuals and families.

In 2003, Myah served as Miss Oregon (with the Miss Universe Organization) performing public advocacy around multicultural education in public schools, human rights issues and public health.
Moving east, she served in a number of roles at Columbia University in New York City and the University of South Florida in Tampa. Presently Myah sits on several committees and national boards. She volunteers her time with organizations, which support empowerment of girls and issues surrounding access to higher education.

Raised on the Windward-side of O'ahu, Myah attended Kalaheo High School. She went on to receive a B.A. from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and an M.A. from Columbia University in New York City. Additionally Myah is currently completing an international M.B.A. at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in partnership with Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

Myah resides in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband Jaime.