HONOLULU — Ten University of Hawai‘i at Manoa undergraduate students will be spending the Spring 2011 semester as legislative interns in the offices of state representatives and senators, and one will serve as an intern in the city Department of
HONOLULU — Ten University of Hawai‘i at Manoa undergraduate students will be spending the Spring 2011 semester as legislative interns in the offices of state representatives and senators, and one will serve as an intern in the city Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, a news release states.
The UH Manoa students and the offices to which they are assigned are:
State House
Marissa Agena of Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i – Rep. Rita Cabanilla
Davin Aoyagi of Kuliouou – Rep. Karl Rhoads
Niroshan Kariapper of McCully – Rep. Angus McKelvey
James Larson of Manoa – Rep. Marcus Oshiro
Geoffrey Pullen of Manoa – Rep. Blake Oshiro
State Senate
Charles Feldman of Haleiwa – Sen. Kalani English
Laila Goring of the Ala Moana area – Sen. Clayton Hee
Austin Rochon of Hawai‘i Kai – Sen. Mike Gabbard
Shane Strong of the Ala Moana area – Sen. Michelle Kidani
Troy Thompson of Kailua – Sen. Sam Slom
Department of Prosecuting
Attorney (Honolulu)
Abigail Trenhaile of Kane‘ohe
Scholarship funding covers a full semester’s tuition and earns each intern 15 credits toward graduation.
In addition to the legislative and prosecutor’s interns, four UH Manoa students are spending the Spring 2011 semester in Washington, D.C., as Fellows interning in all four offices of the state’s Congressional delegation. The Congressional interns are Sean Callahan of Kailua (U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa), Elyse Oyama of Kailua (U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka), Sun Young “Kelly” Park of Hawai‘i Kai (U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono), and Edward Toyozaki of St. Louis Heights (U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye).
All internship programs are under the jurisdiction of the UH Manoa Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and overseen and administered by Professor Lawrence Nitz of the Political Science Department and Jon Matsuda of Outreach College.
