Carol Walker, Nū hou Newsletter Editor, recently assumed the position of Executive Director of the East Hawai’i Cultural Center, having served on the EHCC Board as treasurer and then as vice chair. She spent most of her career in Micronesia, Mozambique, Egypt, and Indonesia, working in government-funded development projects and with non-profits. She held several editorial positions with the premier publisher of English language magazines in Egypt, and went on to found and manage Prakarsa, a bilingual Indonesian-English technical journal. During her 17 years in Indonesia, Carol played with several amateur Javanese gamelan groups. She established EHCC’s community gamelan group, Gamelan of the Molten Blossom, in summer 2018.