8th Hawaii Conference on Language Access: Speaker Presentations

Mark A. Chandler

HUD Community Planning and Development Programs” – Mark Chandler, Director, Community Planning & Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

 

 

 

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Josie Howard

 

Working with us Natives from the Micronesian Islands” – Josie Howard, Executive Director, We Are Oceania

 

 

 

 

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Sheldon Riklon, M.D.

 

“Compact of Free Association Nations: Geopolitics & Culture” – Sheldon Riklon, M.D., Assistant Professor, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Chair, Micronesian Health Advisory Coalition

 

 

 

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Neal A. Palafox, M.D., M.P.H.

“Language Access – Health Literacy 8-14-2015” – Neal A. Palafox, M.D./M.P.H., Professor of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

 

 

 

 

 

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Joakim JoJo Peter

Language Access, Social Justice & Hawaii’s COFA Residents” – Joakim “JoJo” Peter, doctoral candidate College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, COFA Community Advocacy Network, Micronesian Health Advisory Coalition, We Are Oceania, Micronesian Advocacy Network, Micronesian United, FAS Empowerment, Nations of Micronesia

 

 

 

 

Glory Gervacio 2015

Glory Gervacio Saure

Hawai`i’s COFA Communities” – Glory Gervacio Saure, Director of the Honolulu Local Office, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

 

 

 

 

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Christina Perez

COFA Migrant Legal Status in the U.S.” – Christina L. Perez, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary,  Office of Minority Health in Region IX, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health as the Regional Minority Health Consultant

 

 

 

 

Tina A. Takashy

Tina A. Takashy

Understanding the COFA Homelessness Challenge in Hawaii” – Tina A. Takashy, Advocate/Consultant, Devint Micronesia

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Tom, RN/PHN

Barbara Tom, RN/PHN

Micronesian Interpreters Training and Challenges” – Barbara Tom, RN/PHN, Chair, Nations of Micronesia Committee

 

 

 

 

 

Jun Yang

Jun Yang

Housing First: the City’s Coordinated Approach to Addressing Chronic Homelessness” – Jun Yang, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Housing Office, City and County of Honolulu

 

 

 

 

Dina R. Yoshimi, Ph.D.

Dina R. Yoshimi, Ph.D.

An Overview of the Hawaii State Seal of Biliteracy” – Dina R. Yoshimi, Ph.D., Director, Hawaiʻi Language Roadmap Initiative, and Associate Professor, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa