Our Speaker for the September 15th meeting is Gene Ward is the State Representative for the 17th Representative District. To attend, RSVP here ---> Doodle A FEW WORDS ABOUT GENE WARD: Gene Ward is Hawaii’s new RNC National Committeeman and 10-term member of the House of Representatives. He is cofounder and co-chair of the Small Business Caucus and presently serves as Minority Floor Leader and Minority Leader Emeritus. Gene served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in North Borneo and more recently served as the Peace Corps Country Director in East Timor. Prior to that, he was a Presidential Appointee in the George W. Bush Administration’s Office of Democracy and Governance in USAID. During his tenure as a Senior Democracy Officer, he wrote a book on “Money in Politics” for USAID which was published in English, Croatian and Spanish. Gene is a small business development specialist and served in the United Nations in Malawi, Africa, where he converted a vocational training school into an entrepreneurship development center. He has Ph.D. in economic sociology and speaks Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese and served as a translator interpreter in Vietnam. He is married to Faredah Shamsudin (formerly of Malaysia) and they have one daughter, Johanna who is entering into her second year at Quinnipiac University. She plans to pursue a law degree and follow in her esteemed father’s footsteps. Who knows? Perhaps the future Governor of Hawaii and beyond! |
