Marisa Hayase directs more than $150 million a year in grantmaking from the Weinberg Foundation across the U.S. and Israel. Her deep Hawaiʻi roots and life experiences helped shape a vision of leadership grounded in care and connection, with community voices at the forefront. “I felt like I was leading when I finally understood that amplifying other people’s stories is a form of leadership.”

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