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Chad Blair has been a writer, editor and teacher in Honolulu for more than 25 years. His job as reporter and editor is to cover �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ��, especially how political decisions impact people and communities.

Chad has worked as a journalist for Pacific Business News, �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� Public Radio and Honolulu Weekly. He has taught at the University of �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� at Mānoa, Honolulu Community College, �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� Pacific University and Chaminade University of Honolulu.

A “military brat,” Chad was born on an Army base in Alabama and later lived with his family in Germany, Illinois, Nebraska and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where he edited the school newspaper. He also minored in Spanish and studied for a semester in Mexico.

Chad worked for a year on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, where he tracked satellites for the U.S. Air Force/NORAD. He then earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American studies from UH Manoa. His dissertation, “Democracy in �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ��: Class, Race and Gender in Local Politics” (1996), was published as “Money, Color and Sex in �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� Politics” (Mutual Publishing; 1998).

You can reach him by email at cblair@civilbeat.org or follow him on Twitter at .