Hawaii Bicycling League Staff

Hawaii Bicycling League’s leadership is Malia Harunaga and Daniel Alexander who are both serving as Co-Directors. They lead a team of dedicated and passionate staff.

Daniel Alexander
Co-Director/Advocacy, Planning & Communication Director

Daniel has spent years working on bicycle advocacy and alternative transportation planning. He is a graduate on UH Manoa’s Urban Planning department, where his extra-curriculars included co-founding and coordinating Cycle Manoa. After college, Daniel worked as a transportation planner for Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts and as a urban planner for Hawaii-based planning-firm Belt Collins. Daniel is an American Certified Institute Planner.

Malia k Harunaga
Co-Director/Membership & Volunteer Manager

Malia has always loved riding bikes, and competed in keiki triathlons when she was little. She has been teaching as a League Cycling Instructor certified by the League of American Bicyclists for seven years, and after graduating college joined the awesome crew that is HBL at the beginning of the 2015. She loves bicycling (fixed gear & road, competing & for leisure), running, and photography. Malia is looking forward to bicycles taking over the world (or at least Hawaiʻi) in the near future!

  Sateash Diehm
Events Director

Sateash joins the HBL team with 10 years of event planning experience, and looks forward to learning the ins and outs of planning the best bike ride events in Hawai‘i! Sateash enjoys dancing, going to shows, singing karaoke, and hanging with friends, over a good meal, a fun board game, or a day at the beach.

Chad Taniguchi
Director Emiritus

Chad has been an HBL member, volunteer and bike/bus commuter from Kailua since 2003 when the Honolulu bus strike pushed him back to pedaling after years of bus and car riding. Before starting work at HBL in 2010 he was executive director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority with 6,000 housing units statewide. He is happy to use his background in county government on Kauai and experience with the legislature to support HBL’s advocacy for safer streets and vision zero – a future where no one has to die on our streets.

Andrew Atkins
BikeED Manager/Instructor

Andrew has lived in Hawaii for over ten years. He has a bachelor’s in business management and is working on getting his teaching degree. Andrew has been biking for eight years and became a certified League Cycling Instructor in 2016. He enjoys biking and spending time with his girlfriend, two cats, and dog.

Carlos Lara

Adult Cycling Education Manager

Carlos was born and raised in West Texas and moved to Hawaii and has enjoyed living here since 2001. He has been a fitness consultant for major health clubs for over 20 years. His expertise is in understanding client’s health challenges and re-uniting them with the best version of themselves through corrective stretching, customized exercises and nutritional knowledge. A fitness enthusiast, Carlos enjoys everything athletic, he cycles indoor and outdoor, hikes, plays basketball, racquetball, tennis and corn hole. Carlos also enjoys a good game of billiards, singing karaoke and BBQing anytime possible. He recently became Schwinn certified to teach indoor cycling as well as becoming certified as an Archery Instructor. Safe to say when the Zombie Apocalypse starts, the Zombies in his neighborhood don’t stand a chance. Favorite saying: “Come with me if you want to lift”.

Chet Blanton
BikeED Team Leader

Chet “the Jet” Blanton has taught bicycle education to 4th graders in BikeEd Hawaii since 1999. The founder of the triathlon team Team Jet Hawaii, Chet’s also an accomplished triathlete: former reigning world record holder for completing the most Ironman’s in one year (27, 1998-2003), and has completed 45 Marathons, 80 Ultra Marathons, 100 Sprint Triathlons, and the Double Deca Ironman.

Andrew Ouchi
BikeED Team Leader

Andrew enjoys riding bikes, but finds hills to be a problem. He found a great solution to this when he heard about electric bikes and proudly owns a couple DIY bikes. Andrew has been working with kids for over 10 years and now gets to teach them how to be safer and smarter commuters.

BikeEd Part Time Instructors Sharleen Andrade & Lee Maxwell coming soon