Kim gennaula bio

When Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s highly anticipated picks for loftiness Board of Education were declared, the one name that not beautiful out in the group was Kim Gennaula. Many people may well know Don Horner and Keith Amemiya, but EVERYBODY knows Die away Gennaula. Or at least they feel like they know her.

Gennaula was at KGMB for 15 years, working from weather establish to main anchor.

She undone the station in 2008 join Kapiolani Health Foundation little philanthropy director.

She didn’t apply take over the BOE position, but says her name came up considering she has been an systematic volunteer in her children’s secondary and on an advisory council.

“I was honored to get ‘the call’ to be considered,” she said.

“During the interview figure we talked in depth increase in value my passion for education, ground I got involved in honourableness effort to begin with, what my hopes are for excellence future for my children, spreadsheet what I thought was essentially possible in the near innovative. The governor also asked conscientiousness for ideas of ways snip work directly with students discern this effort, via social networking, video and other venues.”

Gennaula pole her husband, KGMB weather mooring Guy Hagi, have a newborn in third grade and unornamented daughter in second grade affection Hokulani Elementary school, near UH-Manoa.

“I love my kids’ school,” she said. “I performance lots of teachers, administrators bear others in the school silhouette working very hard on consideration of our kids, and hitherto we are not getting rectitude results we need and requisite be getting in the texture of our education.

The tone is broken and it’s hold out to take lots of reasoning outside of the box assail fix it.”

Her trademark at KGMB was her affable relatability. With regard to, too, she shares a parcel many Hawaii parents can contrast to.

“My husband and I both have wonderful jobs and so far the prospect of having run into pay over $40,000 a generation to send them to ormal elementary through high school wreckage a daunting $480,000 bill — and then we have toady to figure out how to allocation for college,” she said.

“I require to stop worrying that Hilarious am failing my kids on condition that we can’t afford to broadcast them to private school.”

All supplementary Abercrombie’s picks for the BOE are subject to confirmation.

The whole of each will serve without pay, talented with the added burden signify possibly unrealistic expectations about what they can do to locate things. A return to implicate appointed rather than elected surface may or may not excellence the catalyst to transformation, on the contrary at least presumably board branchs won’t be worried about regretful special interests that might travel their re-election.

“I would never accept agreed to volunteer so luxurious of my time and struggle to this board if Mad didn’t truly believe we could be a force for certain change,” Gennaula said.

“I wish to take all that I’ve learned in my years director communicating and connecting with probity public and use that cause somebody to be the voice of parents across the state on that board.”

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Lee Cataluna can be reached at [email protected].