About the Institute

SHADE Institute is Hawai‘i's first public interest design organization. Launched in 2015, the Institute's mission is to provide community-based planning and design to underserved communities and other nonprofit organizations. It accomplishes this through an annual fellowship program that offers intern training and professional mentorship.

The result is a dynamic exchange, with innovative young talents from around the world sharing their backgrounds and skills to Hawai‘i as they gain real-world professional and cultural experience working in a new environment.

Public interest design is a growing sector of non-profit and pro-bono practice in the planning architectural and engineering fields around the world.

PROJECTs

INSTITUTE OFFICERS

Don Shaw, AIA
President

Hale Takazawa, AIA
Vice President

Melanie Ide
Secretary

Lei Naomi Sakamoto
Treasurer

Dean Sakamoto, FAIA, LEED AP, SEED
Executive Director

aDVISORY bOARD

Alison Kwok

Ashleigh Loa

Brent Tokita, AIA, LEED AP

Cesare Ceballos, AIA

Craig Hirasaki

Daniel Dinell

Dayton Wong

Donald Watson

Hale Takazawa

Illya Azaroff, FAIA

Jacob Reidel

Jason Takeuchi, AIA, NCARB

Jeanine Centuori, FAIA

Jodi Endicott

Joe Ferraro, FAIA, LEED AP

Joseph Uno, LEED AP

Joel Kurokawa, ASLA

Josh Powell, AIA, LEED AP

Karl Kim, Ph. D.

Ken Hayashida, P.E.

Ken Kajiwara, AIA

Lesa Griffith

Mark Enomoto

Mary Pat Waterhouse

Mo Zell

Ramona K. Mullahey

Ryan M.K. Char, P.E., LEED AP

Steffen Lehmann, PhD, RIBA, RAIA, AoU

Stephen Nash, AIA, CSI

Thomas Lee, B.S.

SHADE Institute is an IRS certified 501(c)(3) charitable organization.