In this episode of the Voice of Business Podcast, we sit down with Colleen Hanabusa. She is a prominent labor lawyer and was the first woman President of the Hawaii State Senate. She served as the Congressional Representative for District 2 from 2016-2018.
Hanabusa is the current Chair of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit (HART) Board, a role she was elected to once before. In this episode, she discusses the upcoming opening of the first segment of the rail project. She explains why she believes rail is important to the future of our community. We also get a glimpse of her childhood in Waianae watching her parents grow a family-owned business.