Hello! My name is Lily Cappello and I am from San Diego, California. I am a freshman studying Psychology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I am very excited for the opportunities that being an AAUW at UHM intern holds during my time as an undergraduate. It is important to me to represent women’s equity issues by targeting our work through younger generations because they have the power to make change! I am a newly initiated member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority on campus and love to be around women who are heavily involved around campus. I spend most of my time exploring the island and going to the beach.

Aloha! My name is Eileen Liu and I am currently a first-year DAP student at the Shidler College of Business working toward a BBA in marketing and management. This is my first year with AAUW at UHM and I am very excited to learn more about activism within the Hawai'i community while also working with AAUW to give back to the community. As a communications intern at AAUW at UHM, I hope to be more active in social issues and to gain experience in the communications field! Aside from academics, I enjoy baking, traveling, and listening to and performing music.

Nalehua’O Puna Donlin

Nalehua’o Puna Donlin is in the last year of her masters program in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Counseling. Last year her mom suffered a massive stroke and because of this, Nalehua’o then became her mother's caregiver. With what Nalehua’o is currently learning in her graduate program, she is able to advocate for her. From this experience, she realized her interests in disabilities and how having a brain injury affects cognitive functions. Because of this, Nalehua’o will be pursuing her doctorate in Cognitive Psychology next Fall. Nalehua’o wants to thank the donors for allowing her to be an AAUW Honolulu graduate scholarship recipient this year. This scholarship has allowed her to continue in her education as she becomes a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.

Jasmine Padamada

Jasmine Padamada was born and raised in Kea'au, Hawai'i. She graduated from Kea'au High School and went on to attend the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. She then completed the 'Imi Ho'ōla Post-Baccalaureate Program and matriculated into her first year at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. She is currently interested in being a primary care physician on the Big Island.

Olivia Smith

Olivia is a third-year PhD student at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, studying at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. She received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Neuroscience from the University of Vermont, her Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served as a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene promoter in the northern Andes of Peru. Currently, she is working in a tropical medicine, medical microbiology, and pharmacology laboratory, studying Covid-19 vaccine development, as well as vaccine efficacy in metabolic syndromes of obesity and diabetes.