Island Strategy LLC
Jan TenBruggencate is the author of books on the history of the Hawaiian sugar and pineapple industries, on Pacific piracy, menehune, volcanoes and other topics. He is a retired daily newspaper journalist (The Honolulu Advertiser) and a more recently a communications consultant. He serves on the Kaua‘i County Charter Review Commission, and the board of the Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative and is a founding director of Mālama Hulē‘ia, which operates the 600-year-old Alakoko Fishpond on Kaua‘i. He coordinates the Environmental Journalism Fellowship at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. He was born in Holland, raised on Moloka‘i and coaches paddling with Kaiola Canoe Club at Niumalu, Kaua’i.