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Kelly M. Rosati JD

Executive Director

Kelly M. Rosati, JD is an attorney with a decade of experience in the legislative and public policy arenas.  She was a Division I college athlete, playing volleyball and triple jumping at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

She graduated cum laude from the University of Nebraska School of Law in 1993, where she was a member of the trial court team and where she was named in Who’s Who Among American Law Students.

She worked for state legislators in Nebraska and Wisconsin.  In 1995, she became the Director of Government and Legal Affairs for the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans, where she represented 20 health plans on a variety of issues in the Wisconsin Legislature and before state agencies.

In 1998, she became the Executive Director of Hawaii Family Forum (HFF).  For the next five years, she led HFF in its quest to represent Hawaii families in the community, the Legislature and the media.  During this period she hosted a weekly radio program called “Family Forum” on KAIM radio.

She was instrumental in victories on the issues of same-sex marriage, protecting girls from commercial sexual exploitation, stopping commercial gambling in Hawaii, and forming with Hawaii’s medical community Hawaii’s Partnership for Appropriate and Compassionate Care, a coalition dedicated to stopping legalized assisted suicide and improving end of life care.  Finally, she was instrumental in raising Hawaii’s lowest in the nation age of sexual consent to protect minors from adult sexual exploitation.

She returned to the U. S. mainland in the summer of 2003 to help take care of her dying grandfather.  During the next one and on half years, she formed her own Government Affairs company, working for clients such as the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans, the Wisconsin Coalition for Traditional Marriage, and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.  During this period she also continued consulting pro bono for Hawaii Family Forum.

Kelly resumed her duties at Hawaii Family Forum in December of 2004.  Kelly also represents the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu on legislative issues.

Most importantly, she has been married for 15 years and she and her husband have three children.

Eva Andrade
Director of Communications & Administration

Eva Andrade has been involved in education on public policy issues for over 10 years. As the current Director of Communications and Administration for Hawaii Family Forum (HFF), a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening Hawaii's families, Eva has assisted families in Hawaii by providing research, education, and training on a variety of issues important to the community.  

Before coming to HFF, Ms. Andrade (Simmons) worked for eight years at the Hawaii Catholic Conference (HCC), the public policy arm for the Roman Catholic Church in the State of Hawaii.   She has been actively involved in the defense of the family on such high profile issues as same-sex marriage, age of consent, and doctor-assisted suicide.

She is currently a member of the HCC Board of Directors. 

Past committees include; St. Francis Healthcare System Ethics Committee, and has the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. 

Originally from Pearl City, she is a 1981 graduate (with honors) of Star of the Sea High School in Honolulu, and currently lives in Mililani.  She has two daughters.  She attends Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Pearl City.