Your PinchHitter Hawai`i, LLC Team
KELLY MALUO-PEARSON
Kelly's passion is collaborating with others to find solutions and developing leadership skills.
Kelly has been with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui for over 27 years. Prior to becoming the CEO in 2014, she served as the Director of Operations for 17 plus years.
Born and raised on the Big Island in Hilo, Kelly has been involved in youth development for over thirty-five years. For decades, she served as an athletic coach. In 2012, Maluo-Pearson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) after being selected to be a Woodruff Fellow. In December of 2013 and with the support of the Woodruff Scholarship, she earned her master’s degree in human resources management from the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Amongst her many achievements, Maluo-Pearson graduated from the Hawaii Community Foundation Hawaii’s Emerging Leaders Program, Weinberg Fellows Program and the Non-Profit Executive Leadership Program out of the University of Washington. In 2018, she was awarded the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) Pacific Region Sparkplug Award. On August 4, 2017, County of Maui, Mayor Alan Arakawa proclaimed the day Kelly Pearson Day for Kelly’s 20th Anniversary with the organization and her years of service to the youth of the Maui community.
More recently at the 2023 Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Pacific Region Leadership Conference, she was awarded the Blue Spirit Award. According to Jim Clark, President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Blue Spirit Award recognizes leaders who have demonstrated what it truly means to be a Club and community leader and have gone above and beyond to drive impact and make a difference. Clark announced that this award decision was made earlier in the summer but the recent tragic events we have seen on Maui reiterated the decision based on BGCM’s leadership and response to support our youth, families, staff, and community.
KAHULU MALUO-PEARSON
Kahulu is a gracious facilitator, leveling the working field so all participants feel they have an important role in any conversation.
Lifetime Maui resident, Maui High School graduate, attended University of Hawai'i at Hilo and later completed her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration at Regis University in Colorado. Kahulu is close to completion of her Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management.
Kahulu gained her extensive management background as the Cultural Programs Director at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Through her facilitation of the Artist in Community program, Kahulu built numerous lasting community relationships, as well as, gained Capital fundraising experience and extensive knowledge in Contracts & Business Agreements.
Kahulu has been a student of Hula since the age of 3, studied with such esteemed Kumu Hula as Emma Farden Sharpe, Iola Balubar, Hõkūlani Holt and Hawai'i Island's Rae Fonseca while studying at UH-Hilo. Kahulu completed her traditional 'ūniki ceremony under Kumu Hula Hokulani Holt, along with Rae Fonseca & Johnny Lum Ho in June 2004. In 1996 Kahulu co-founded Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka o Uka, along with her sister Nāpua Silva. In 2014, she decided to open her own hālau in Wai`ehu Maui - Hālau Kamaluokaleihulu.
Kahulu has been an active part of the Maui Hula community for close to 30 years. She has taken on international students, working successfully with four different Hālau from Japan for the past 19 years. She is a supporter of the Huamakahikina Kumu Hula Coalition, and the up and coming Hālau of ‘Oiwi Arts project on Maui.
Kahulu was most recently the Executive Director at KA’EHU, an `Aina Restoration Project in Paukukalo. She is also presently serving on the Maui County's Cultural Resource Commission.