About Us

About us

AAUW Maui Branch was founded in 1962 with a group of woman college graduates who sought to promote equality and education for girls and women. Building upon this legacy, today’s AAUW Maui Branch seeks to evolve with the times to focus on the purpose of AAUW through mission focused programming coordinated with AAUW Hawaii and its branches. Facing a nationwide decline in AAUW membership, and an aging population and membership, our Maui Branch has welcomed a record number of young diverse working women members. We look forward to building community and a next generation of AAUW leaders, supporters, and testifiers engaging with the mission and purpose of AAUW.

Our Heroine: Patsy Mink

We feel it is our obligation as Maui was the home of Patsy Mink to be champions for Title IX, for equality for women and girls, and equal pay for working women. AAUW is the primary community organization lobbying for equal pay in Hawaii, and we support AAUW Hawaii’s legislative priorities regarding childcare and paid family leave to support Hawaii’s working women and working mothers.

“It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.”

“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences… to make sure that others … do not have to suffer the same discrimination.”

- Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, Congresswoman from Hawaii, the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and Maui High School Valedictorian 1944.

Officers and Board Members

Elected Leadership (Executive Board)

Lauren Akitake

President

Shawna Pabingwit

Program Vice President

Beyanne Bowers

Membership Co-Vice Presidents

Yukari Murakami

Membership Co-Vice Presidents

Johanna (Jan) Moore

Finance Officer

Pamela Schulz

Secretary

Appointed Leadership

Pat Gotschalk

Immediate Past President (ex-officio)

Marci Burgess

Communications Chair

Dorothy Tolliver

Parliamentarian

Sonya Toma

Public Policy Chair

Joyce Yamada

UH Maui College Liason

Interest Group Chairs

Lyn Constantino

Social Co-Chairs

Marci Burgees

Social Co-Chairs

Dorothy Tolliver

Book Club

Pat Gotschalk

Members' Lunch

Join us

We invite you as an AAUW Maui supporter to join us as we reflect and commit to broadening our scope of impact among the women and girls of our Maui Nui community. Please email us at aauwmaui@gmail.com to learn more about how AAUW Maui is working to support equity for all, and how you can be a part of the process.

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