She created a new department and her current position at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center to help nearby residents who need better access to healthy food and support in adopting healthier lifestyles.

As executive director of UH’s PACE, Fujiyama helps run 20 programs that provide mentoring and support to student entrepreneurs.

The Bank of Hawaii executive VP and director leads the bank’s sustainable finance group, which focuses on affordable housing and renewable energy.

The senior advisor for the Institute for Climate and Peace and Native Hawaiian liaison for AlohaCare is finishing up her seventh degree.

The executive director of Lydia House wants to spend the next two decades helping establish a system that stabilizes Native Hawaiian youth so that they can thrive.

Chang leads a nonprofit that is currently helping over 600 public high school students become Hawai‘i’s future leaders.

Becoming a caregiver shifted Balaz’s professional focus to geriatric medicine, Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, and helping kūpuna navigate their later years.

The Cades Schutte partner discovered his affinity for tax law while studying at Duke University School of Law.

We began profiling local emerging leaders in 2007 with a feature called 25 for the Next 25. Here is an update on those people, who included Brian Schatz, Peter Ho and Christine Camp.