About the Institute

SHADE Institute, the nonprofit arm of SHADE Group, 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

Liza Lockard, Ph.D.
Secretary

Lei Naomi Sakamoto
Treasurer

Dean Sakamoto, FAIA, LEED AP, SEED
Executive Director

DIRECTORS

Illya Azaroff, FAIA

Stephanie Chang, M.A

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

Jeanine Centuori, FAIA.

Suzanne Chun-Oakland

Catherine Cruz

Jason DeMarco, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C

Lesa Griffith

Ken Hayashida, P.E.

Melanie Ide

Douglas Imig, Ph.D.

Ken Kajiwara, AIA

Joel Kurokawa, ASLA

Thomas Lee, B.S.

Aki Marceaux, AICP, LEED AP

Peter Morris

Ramona K. Mullahey

Josh Powell, AIA, LEED AP

David Rockwood, R.A.

Ichiro Sekimitsu, MBA

Jonathan Sim, AIA

Don Shaw, AIA

John Toguchi, AIA, LEED AP

Brent Tokita, AIA, LEED AP

Mary Pat Waterhouse

Donald Watson, FAIA, CIP

Elliott van Wie, MURP

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