MEET THE TEAM
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
~Mahatma Ghandi
~Mahatma Ghandi
KSSL Student Leaders
Ok EngichyKSSLP Administrative Assistant,
Resilience Corps Leader, Undergraduate Research Assistant Rananim(Hello!) My name is Ok Engichy and I am a First-generation college student. Currently attending school here at KCC part time as I am a full time Medical Assistant. I am majoring in Liberal Arts and pursuing Nursing. I am from Chuuk, Micronesia; raised here in Oahu. I hope to gain knowledge and expand my experiences while implementing my cultural practices in my work as I am a part of the KSSLP Team.
For we live by Faith, not by sight |
Tepora RekisHealth Promotion Team (HPT) Leader,
Health Pathway Leader Aloha everyone! My name is Tepora, I am a full-time undergraduate student here in Kapi’olani Community College. Majoring in Liberal Arts, pursuing nursing. I am a Lunalilo scholar of the Lunalilo program. I am a Pacific Islander from Chuuk, Micronesia. I joined KSSLP with the goal of gaining experience and exploring out of my comfort zone, therefore I selected the Health pathway.
Choose Joy! Don't wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you'll run out of time. |
VacantEnvironment Promotion Team (EPT) Leader,
Environment Pathway Leader If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart |
VacantEnvironment Promotion Team (EPT) Co-Leader,
Environment Pathway Co-Leader He ali`i ka `āina, ha kauwa ke kanaka. |
VacantEducation Promotion Team (EdPT) Leader,
Education Pathway Leader Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
VacantArts, History and Culture Promotion Team (AHCPT) Leader &
Arts, History and Culture Pathway Leader I am going to make everything around me beautiful, that will be my life. |
Note: If you are interested in becoming a Pathway Leader please contact us at [email protected] for more information.
KSSL Faculty and Staff
Denise M. Pierson, M.Ed., CVMOutreach Coordinator, Civic & Community Engagement
Aloha! My name is Denise M. Pierson, M.Ed., CVM. I am the Civic and Community Engagement Outreach Coordinator for the Service and Sustainability Learning Program at Kapi’olani Community College. I have been working in the service-learning field since 1994 and held the position of State Network Director for Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact (HIPICC) for 19 years prior to coming to Kapiʻolani Community College. I am certified in the Urban & Community Forestry Program, and I am an advocate for the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. I am also fully trained and certified by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. My passion is helping students become successful in pursuing their personal and educational goals.
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F.E.A.R.
Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise, the choice is yours.
~Zig Ziglar
Krista HiserFaculty Outreach Coordinator
As the Faculty Outreach Coordinator, Krista facilitates the connections between faculty, and Service-Learners and community partners. She has organized events such as Service-Learning Faculty Field Trips, Sustainability Institutes, and Faculty Institutes. Krista also is a main contributor during assessments. Her passion for sustainability, service, and education is the perfect ingredient for our program.
The destiny of both people and planet rest ultimately with human choice as we anticipate and respond to crises and seize opportunities for positive transformation. Will our actions be tardy and tepid? Or timely and consequential? |
Bob Franco, PhDDirector, Office for Institutional Effectiveness
The academic programs at Kapiʻolani Community College prepare students to meet rigorous baccalaureate and career standards in the future.
Service-Learning emphasizes that students need to be engaged as productive citizens now and into the future. This context of immediacy and relevance helps service-learning students better understand key course concepts, clarify degree and career goals, and develop the problem-solving and teamwork skills they need in Hawaii’s diverse communities, now and into the future. The problems we all confront—poverty and homelessness, ethnic health disparities, emerging infectious diseases, under-resourced public schools, long-term care, ecological degradation, and climate change—need the focused intellectual and social capital of all of us. Service-Learning helps ameliorate all these problems beginning now. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |