Agena chosen as legislative intern

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.