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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Pacific Club: 1451 Queen Emma Street, Honolulu 96813
Meredith Artley
presents
Growing Trust & Compassion in Turbulent Times:
How HPR is Working to Meet the Moment
Hawai’i Public Radio is meeting the moment in these tumultuous times. Meredith Artley, President and CEO of HPR, will share how the team is working to fight polarization and isolation, serving the people of Hawai'i with helpful information and distinctive storytelling, powerful inspiration of music and the arts, and making connections that create compassion and strengthen communities.
Meredith Artley is the President and CEO of Hawai’i Public Radio, an essential service that informs, inspires, and connects Hawai’i on air, online, and in person across the islands.
Meredith leads a team that serves hundreds of thousands of people in Hawai'i via HPR-1, HPR-2, https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/ and an expanding portfolio of digital products and events that bring people together. The HPR team includes committed journalists, on-air hosts with deep and varied expertise, and a range of dedicated community leaders who work with individuals, local businesses, and partners who help make HPR a success story in a challenging media landscape.
In recent months, Meredith and the team have spent a good deal of time working to communicate the range of threats to HPR and public media at large, making sure that HPR stays strong in the face of change and uncertainty.
Previously, Meredith led CNN as the Editor in Chief and SVP of CNN Digital Worldwide, she oversaw a global team of hundreds of reporters, producers and editors who created and distributed CNN’s journalism to more than 20 million people every day.
She left CNN in 2022 to move to Hawai’i, where she joined the Doris Duke Foundation to lead the Shangri La Museum as Interim Executive Director and also served as the Executive in Residence at the Doris Duke Foundation.
IMPORTANT-DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS
Wednesday, August 21, 2025
TO MAKE A RESERVATION
Attendance limited to 50 people. First come, first accepted.
Email Carol Egan at cognac91@gmail.com
by Noon, Thursday, August 21, include your name and the name of your Guest, if any.
Lunch is plated. Include in the email your choice and your Guest’s choice from the three options:
(a) Chicken Salad on Pita Bread
(b) Southwestern Black Bean Corn Salad, Avocado Crema
(c) Pacific Club Wrap in Tomato Tortilla (vegetarian)
Members and Friends: $35
Guests: $38 - not dues paying Members or Friends
Checks should be received by
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Make checks payable to NLAPW Honolulu.
Mail to Carol Egan, 344 Iliaina Street, Kailua HI 96734
With a reservation you may pay at the door by check or cash.
PAST EVENTS
July 16, 2025 - The Magic of Stories: 2025 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition winners reading
May 7, 2025 - Members & Friends Reading: Celebrating Our Pen Women’s Writing
April 2, 2025 - Eric Paul Shaffer: Defining Success in Poetry, One Friend at a Time
February 24, 2025 - Susan Scott: HAWAII’S PLANTS AND ANIMALS, a new book for all who love Hawaii
January 29, 2025 - John Rampage: The Joy & Frustration of Producing Musical Theatre in Honolulu
November 6, 2024 - Rebecca Woodland: Your So Talented and Other Lies
October 2, 2024 - Tamara Moan: Putting It on Paper: Words & Pictures
September 4, 2024 - Kealoha: Science, Poetry, Life
June 12, 2024 - Jason O’Rourke: Conservation through Photography (via zoom)
May 1, 2024 - Celebrating Our Writers: Pen Women Honolulu Members Share their own work
April 3, 2024 - Kaethe Kauffman: From Nothing to Something: Creativity's Great Surprises
March 6, 2024 - Maya Sypert: The Other Side of the Mirror: Reflections on My Journey as a Classical Singer
January 31, 2024 - Mindy Pennybacker: Surfing the sisterhood of Hawaiian water women
November 2, 2023 - Shari Lynn: A Life built on Song and Music
October 4, 2023 - Shervelle Bergholz: The Power of Storytelling
September 7, 2023 - Lee Cataluna: Playwriting in Hawaii
May 10, 2023 - Celebrating Our Writers: Pen Women Honolulu Members Share their own work
April 5, 2023 - Don Wallace: Modern Publishing Today
March 1, 2023 - Tadia Rice: The Power of Expressive Arts
January 25, 2023 - Susan McCreary Duprey: How a community embraces the health & well-being of song
November 2, 2022 - Susan Scott: Every Kolea Counts
Durring the Covid-19 pandemic, monthly in-person meetings were cancelled starting with April 2020. Monthly zoom meetings began in January 2021. From March 2021 to the December 2022, we have been privileged to enjoy the following zoom presentations:
March 3, 2021: Presenter Kaethe Kauffman, Humor in Contemporary Art
April 7, 2021: Presenter Jane Marshall Goodsill, How to Convert Oral Histories into Literature
May 5, 2021: Readings of excerpts from current works by our own Members & Friends
June 2, 2021: Presenter Wayne Levine, Where Borders Cross
July 7, 2021: Presenter Roslyn Catracchia, Feeding the Lake (Just Say Yes)
August 4, 2021: Presenter Christine Sleeter, Fiction and Historical Truths
September 1, 2021: Presenter Victoria Talbot, The Important Role of Journalism in Hawai‘i
October 6, 2021: Presenters Rosemary & Larry Mild, Writing Together is Murder
November 3, 2021: Presenters Susie & Gary Anderson, Quick Bite Aloha Friday
January 12, 2022: Presenter Dr. David J. Connor, Writing Compulsions
February 2, 2022: Presenter Penny Pence Smith, Hanging on the Hollywood Sign
March 2, 2022: Presenter Dr. Kelli Carmean, The Ancient Maya: Archaeological Evidence & Creative Writing
April 6, 2022: Presenter Sally French, Transformation
May 4, 2022: Annual Writers Salon: “Words in a Box” … the Pen Women Shine
June 1, 2022: Bob Schildgen, Mr. Green Carries On!
July 6, 2022 - Jeff Raz, How Art Makes Better Lives
August 3, 2022 - Claire Bowman, My life as a writer without discipline, structure & consistent commitment to my craft
September 7, 2022 - Susan Simone, Opening the prison walls: Oral History & Collaborative Writing - zoom recording link CLICK HERE password: m3Fypi+4
October 5, 2022 - Helen Shaw, Criticism as Chronicle: Covering the absence and presence of theater during the COVID shutdown
December 7, 2022 - Happy Everything, short readings shared by members to usher in the holidays & creativity
Attendance at the Zoom sessions were excellent, keeping our interest in and passion for the visual arts, writing, and music on our virtual center stage.