Dreanalee Dre Kalili

Most recently, Dre served as the Special Projects Manager for the department’s highways division, leading the $25 million broadband pilot project to fiber-enable highway facilities and provide free high-speed internet service in eight underserved communities statewide. She also collaborated with federal, state, and county stakeholders to implement the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and worked to expend this new funding, and prepared discretionary grant applications for various highway programs.

She also served as an Interim Deputy Director and Executive Assistant for the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Transportation Services, Business Development Manager for DOT, Policy and Program Analyst for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and as a Projects Director for Government Affairs and Business Development for the Native Affairs and Development Group in Washington D.C.