Aloha, Members: Although we are living in uncertain times, the League of Women Voters of Hawai`i County continues its work to support voter registration and education to strengthen our democracy.

The next General Membership meeting of the League of Women Voters of Hawai`i County will be held on Sept. 19, 2020, at 10 am via Zoom.

Guest Speaker

Our guest Nancy Cook Lauer, a government reporter for West Hawaii Today, will speak on Civic Engagement and Journalism on the Big Island. She has more than 25 years experience as a journalist, winning national and state awards for newspapers in Florida and Hawaii. She publishes a daily state government news aggregate and commentary blog, All Hawaii News.

Vice President of the Hawai‘i Society of Professional Journalists chapter as well as President of the Big Island Press Club, Lauer has a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Old Dominion University.

She earned her reporting chops covering the 2000 Bush v. Gore presidential election at Florida’s ground zero and was recently honored with a Torch of Light award and a Hawai`i State Senate commendation for uncovering questionable spending practices in local government. Her hobbies include snorkeling, container gardening, and reading on her lanai looking out over the ocean

Meeting Details

• To receive a Zoom invitation with the link and access code, contact Rosemarie Muller at lwvhawaiicty [at] gmail.com or (808) 933-8683 (message only).
• Zoom access to this meeting will also be available at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Puna