Board of directors

Barbara De Lucca was named President of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Hawaii in 2020 after serving as the Vice President and Founding Member in 2019.  Mrs. De Lucca is a native of Phoenix, AZ. She moved to the beautiful islands of Hawaii in 1999 and started her real estate career in 2006. Mrs. De Lucca is a Broker-In-Charge with Soldier to Soldier Hawaii Realty. It is her mission to give back to a nonprofit with each home sale. Her passion comes from being a mother of a child that had a traumatic brain injury at birth. She practices real estate with a purpose! With a dedication for giving back to the community, connecting people, and helping others grow their businesses, it was a natural progression for Mrs. De Lucca to lead the movement to organize the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaradelucca

Marysol Ruiz is a first generation Mexican-American.  Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to Oahu in 2005.  Ms. Ruiz is an accomplished Mortgage Loan officer at Edge Home Finance and has been in the mortgage industry for over ten years.  She graduated from the University of Southern California with a double major in Business Administration and French.  She is fluent in Spanish and French. Marysol studied at La Sorbonne in Paris, France and was awarded the Top 10 business plan from the Lloyd Greif center of Entrepreneurial Studies at USC for her Crepe Café business.  Marysol successfully operated Crepe Cafe’ Hawaii for nine years. She is passionate about educating families on home ownership, credit, and self-employment. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marysol-ruiz-52a86719

Dr. Ruben Juarez is the HMSA Distinguished Professor in Health Economics at the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO). He is also the CEO of Hawaii Integrated Analytics, a biotech company with the mission to show that healthcare doesn’t always take place in a doctor’s office. Dr. Juarez was granted the Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University and has been a Professor of Economics and UHERO member since 2008. His main research interests include network economics, behavior and health economics. 

Dr. Juarez has publications in top Economics, Health and Policy journals. He has prestigious research awards and projects for a variety of institutions such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Hawaii Community Foundation, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Kamehameha Schools, and regularly advises community organizations and companies.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruben-juarez-97941b113

Mónica Núñez was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and has Mexican roots.  Her parents are from Oaxaca, and Jalisco, México.  Mrs. Nunez earned her A.A. in Liberal Arts and achieved her B.A. in Social Studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu. She has been in the Escrow and Title side of Real Estate on Oahu since 2012 and is currently an Escrow Officer at Old Republic Title & Escrow of Hawaii. Mrs. Nunez  has a successful U.S. Navy career in which her assignment and role was Intelligence Specialist (Analyst). With three deployments to the Persian Gulf in support of wartime operations, conducting counter-terrorism missions throughout Southeast Asia and having served onboard four U.S. Naval Warships, Monica eventually chose to plant her feet on solid ground and move on from her 14-year service career.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-nunez-a109b234

Michael Aaron Aviles, is the Account Specialist for the University of Phoenix in Hawaii. Mr. Avlies moved to Oahu in 2016 as a Senior Military Enrollment Representative for the University of Phoenix. Mr. Aviles serves as a Division director for Toastmasters International, District 49 Area 8 and served as the Club President for the  University Campus group, Phoenix Rising Kapolei. He is currently serving as VP of Public Relations. 

In 2018, Mr. Aviles was received an Executive Dean Award  for the College of Information Systems Technology and Business. In 2019,  he joined forces with support staff in student services and finance for an initiative designed to Foster United Student Engagement (FUSE) where he was tasked to come up with a project to help frontlines unite in student engagement strategy. His team was named Team Aloha, for the word Aloha holds within itself all one needs to know to interact rightfully in the natural world. These insights describe an attitude or a way of life in which he hopes to emulate daily. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelavileshawaii

MariaValentina Haberman is a creative and dynamic marketing communications manager skilled in strategic and events planning, media relations and community outreach. Ms. Haberman is as passionate as one can be in strategic planning utilizing the power of digital advertising and social media to send the right message to the targeted audience. As lead professional, she enjoys developing her team's continuous improvement and commitment to our strategic task to completion. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariavalentinahaberman

Lisa Sanchez-Johnsen is an academic leader in the areas of health equity and multicultural and Latinx health. She has 30 years of experience conducting research and clinical work with Latinxs, Blacks, and other ethnic minorities in the area of culturally competent health behavior assessments and interventions. Dr. Sánchez-Johnsen was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and received her A.A. from Kapiolani Community College, B.A. in Psychology from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Clinical Psychology from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois. 

 Dr. Sánchez-Johnsen is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (Hawaii, Illinois, and Wisconsin), a Board-Certified Telehealth Professional-Level II, and the owner of Multicultural Health and Wellness, PLLC, a clinical psychology and consulting practice where she will soon start to see patients via tele-health in Hawaii.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-sanchez-johnsen-ph-d-m-s-0153a369