Current seat holder: Lisa Marten (D).
Lisa Marten (Democratic) Lisa Marten graduated from Kalaheo High School. Marten earned a B.A. from Pitzer College and Waseda University, a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University, and a doctorate in public health from Columbia University. Her career experience includes working with the Center on HIV at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine. Marten served with the Kailua Neighborhood Board and the Lanikai Association. I am a local girl who went off-island for my education and to start my career. Soon after having children, I moved back home to raise my family. I'm a proud grad of Kailua Intermediate and Kalaheo High School. After college in California and Japan, I was blessed to earn a Master in Public Policy at Harvard University and then a Doctorate in Public Health at Columbia University. Public Health is the science of gathering and evaluating evidence to make good decisions, whether for COVID-19 or for the health of our community in regular times. A thriving community depends on healthy and productive land and water, access to medical care, and mix of other key ingredients like affordable housing, good education and a fair working wage. After 15 years in health care and research, including at UH Mānoa, I started a non-profit to address environmental threats to our health in collaboration with schools and the Department of Land and Natural Resources. I have also fought, for over a decade, for local housing and traffic safety.