OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Drake Parker
President
Drake has been a Business Manager in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry for over 26 years.
Volunteer experience includes volunteer work with the Veterans Administration, Hawaii Food Bank, American Heart Association, and multiple community youth sports organizations as a coach and mentor.
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
I am inspired to help KCDF by giving back to my community.
Email: Drake@kcdfhawaii.org
Mike Aken
Vice President
Mike is an Operations Project Manager at Qualcomm Inc. and leads the San Francisco Bay Area Giving Committee, managing community partnerships that address critical issues like youth homelessness, food insecurity, education equity, elder assistance, and youth leadership.
A proud graduate of Kamehameha Schools and Menlo College.
He is passionate about volunteerism, inspired by his parents’ 33 years of service as youth mentors for the Waianae Tigers Pop Warner Football Team. Born and raised on the Waianae Coast, Mike values empowering Native Hawaiians through the work of KCDF, believing that knowledge sharing is key to overcoming inequity.
Mike firmly believes in the importance of teaching and sharing knowledge to help communities not just survive but thrive.
Email: Mike@kcdfhawaii.org
Moana Makaimoku
Secretary
Moana has learned how the relics of colonization permeate and continue to impact the most underserved and marginalized Native Hawaiian students, as well as the most experienced and decorated senior Native Hawaiian educators and indigenous practitioners themselves since 2000. From early childhood to higher education in Native Hawaiian communities, Indigenous programs, and educational institutions, Moana believes that until we acknowledge the unacknowledged parts of our identity that continue to suffer, our ability to develop a place of belonging for Native Hawaiian students and educators through institutional indigenization will stop short of our ability to be well.
Committed to the voyage of Indigenous self-discovery to wellness in these ancestral lands, Moana serves as an Instructor in the He Loa Ke Aho program at the University of Hawaiʻi Leeward Community College Native Hawaiian Center at Puʻuloa. Her current role is to provide Indigenous professional development for faculty and staff to contribute to and celebrate a place where Native Hawaiians and all students authentically and readily orient to the beloved homelands of Hawaiʻi.
Email: Moana@kcdfhawaii.org