Tina Nakada Grandinetti F’23 Elected to Hawaiʻi State Legislature
On Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Tina Nakada Grandinetti F’23 was elected to the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives, representing District 20.
Grandinetti is in the second year of her ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity. Her work there focuses on housing futures, and supports the organization by working to identify policies, models, and strategies that advance spatial reparations, and share these strategies with community leaders and policymakers.
Grandinetti was born and raised on Oahu. She earned her Bachelorʻs and Master’s Degrees in Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has a PhD in Global, Urban, and Social Studies from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where her doctoral research focused on Hawaiʻi’s housing crisis.
The ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship program aims to demonstrate the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance social justice and equity. The fellowships support recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations in communities across the United States.