Pono Pacfic CEO John Leong is first in Hawaii to be selected as an Obama Foundation Fellow

Meet John Leong, an Obama Fellow, who is the CEO of Kupu, a Hawaii based organization that is dedicated to helping young adults gain transferrable job skills through service in conservation and sustainability. Kupu strives to empower every young person that commits to the organization to unlock their own potential.  John was inspired to stay and work in Hawaii and feels a deep ownership for it noting, “It’s the place that raised me and there’s so much that I gained from it that it was my responsibility to stay home and contribute to a place that the next generation will have it better than we had it.”