On behalf of incoming East-West Center President Suzanne Vares-Lum, we would like to invite you to watch her Inaugural Address on Monday, January 10, 2022. For everyone’s safety, the ceremony will be filmed and livestreamed. Kahu Kordell Kekoa will perform a traditional Hawaiian blessing, and outgoing President Dr. Richard Vuylsteke will pass down a ceremonial lauhala mat to Ms. Vares-Lum as a symbolic change of responsibility.
 

On behalf of incoming East-West Center President Suzanne Vares-Lum, we would like to invite you to watch her Inaugural Address on Monday, January 10, 2022. For everyone’s safety, the ceremony will be filmed and livestreamed. Kahu Kordell Kekoa will perform a traditional Hawaiian blessing, and outgoing President Dr. Richard Vuylsteke will pass down a ceremonial lauhala mat to Ms. Vares-Lum as a symbolic change of responsibility.