Mtg- Zoom Speaker Lisa Kimura-Aloha United Way

Lisa serves a leading role coordinating Aloha United Way's Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Educated (ALICE) initiative to reduce financial hardship in Hawaii, bringing together nonprofit agencies, coalitions, and government partners to improve economic self-sufficiency and reduce disparities. Lisa is currently managing collective impact efforts and over $50 million in grants to enhance the social services safety net and provide emergency rental and utility assistance to Hawaii residents.

Lisa has a passion for improving public health and economic stability. She has a background in communications, public policy, and social justice advocacy and has worked in both the nonprofit sector and in corporate communications, where she has lead local, national, and international marketing and outreach campaigns.

Lisa previously led Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, a statewide nonprofit organization that advocates and provides programs and services for maternal and child health in Hawaii, and hosted a social justice advocacy show on ThinkTech Hawaii, focused on gender and racial equity and reproductive health. She has conducted statewide health needs assessments for the Department of Health; developed the Piko Pals new parent support program; implemented a statewide infant mortality prevention program; and advocated for legislative policy on paid family leave, livable wages, child care, gender equality, codification of the Affordable Care Act into state law, and the establishment of the Maternal Mortality Review panel in Hawaii.

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