Kamehameha Schools has named Venus Rosete-Medeiros regional director for Maui County, a newly created position within Kamehameha Schools’ Community Engagement and Resources Group (CER). Rosete-Medeiros currently serves as K-12 outreach counselor at KS Maui, a position she has held for the past five years.
As regional director, her kuleana includes leading and facilitating KS regional planning, strategy and action-oriented implementation throughout Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi. She will also be responsible for building relationships with the community, while using internal and external resources to develop and sustain effective education and support services for Maui County.
“CE&R works to connect Kamehameha’s educational services, its lands, and the resources of each community to support Hawai‘i’s educational system and improve the wellbeing of people and place, region-by-region as part of SP2020. Venus brings strong education, community advocacy, and social and family well-being skills to the CE&R ‘ohana,” said Kāʻeo Duarte, VP of Community Engagement and Resources.
Rosete-Medeiros began her career at KS serving as teacher/counselor in the Community Education Division’s Mālama O Ke Ola program, before becoming a youth program developer and disseminator specialist with the Native Hawaiian Safe and Drug-Free Schools program.
An advocate for early childhood education, Rosete-Medeiros has developed several programs and curricula on Maui, including a parenting curriculum based on Hawaiian values that has gone statewide, called Kamalama. She also has experience with Maui’s non-profit sector, working to tackle diverse and challenging issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, homelessness, and incarceration.
Rosete-Medeiros founded the Neighborhood Place of Wailuku, serving as its first executive director. She has facilitated hundreds of youth and community groups over the past 20 years, and has been a consultant and facilitator serving on various statewide and county taskforce committees dedicated to ‘ohana wellbeing.
“I am honored and humbled to be given this opportunity to serve my Maui Nui in this new kuleana,” Rosete-Medeiros said.
“As a product of our Princess Pauahiʻs legacy to be good and industrious, I am prepared to get my hands and feet back into the community to listen first; then get equipped to build bridges and foster relationships that will create greater capacity and opportunities for our Lāhui.”
A graduate of KS Kapālama, Rosete-Medeiros holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from California State University – Sacramento and a master's degree in public administration from James Madison University. She also earned a ministerial arts degree from Capital Bible College.
Born and raised in Kahului, Maui, Rosete-Medeiros now resides in Pukalani. She enjoys spending time with her family.
As a product of our Princess Pauahiʻs legacy to be good and industrious, I am prepared to get my hands and feet back into the community to listen first; then get equipped to build bridges and foster relationships that will create greater capacity and opportunities for our Lāhui.
Venus Rosete-Medeiros, KS Regional Director for Maui County
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