Shane Cobb-Adams is a Strategic Advisor at The Four Cups (T4C) and Co-Founder of our bioregional impact network, Seeding Change.
Shane has extensive experience assessing, developing, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating community projects and programs, working with developers, private foundations, healthcare systems, universities, and charter schools in Hawaii, Māori—New Zealand, and Native Americans in the U.S. As an Educator and Specialist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for 15 years, he is an experienced data analyst and instructor of psychology, statistics, research methodology, and Hawaiian education. Shane designs business systems, educational programs, and community initiatives, and excels in building affiliations and partnerships.
He is a founding member of the Hawaiian Society of Law and Politics. His lobby, grant, research, and policy work includes:
- Securing $9 million for the Native Hawaiian Health Care System of Kauai,
- Procuring $1.2 million for Native Hawaiian Teacher Education,
- Successfully authoring and promoting support for joint Senate/House resolutions and bills,
- Receiving and managing Federal grants for Hawaiian programs, and
- Building project-based learning facilities for Hawaiian communities and Hawaiian charter schools.
Shane comes from a lineage of real estate advisors, investors, and developers, and grew up learning to serve as a community liaison, property manager, appraiser, and title abstractor, and learned to support and close sales. On the development side of real estate he has been involved in regenerative land use and homesteading, designing lot plans, clearing and site work in watershed and sensitive ecosystems, home construction, innovation-driven project proposals, and due diligence.
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