This "young leader" is a documented liar who was working as a paid lobbyist for Pesticide Action Network while pretending to be a political neophyte, lodging false accusations against the Kauai county spokeswoman and writing a phony letter to The Garden Island. 
http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2016/03/musings-keep-faith.html

If this unethical politician is a "commendable example of the new, young leadership now emerging in Hawaii," then it certainly doesn't bode well for the state's future. But she is exactly the sort of person Civil Beat celebrates: someone who is merely "making noise" rather than accomplishing anything meaningful.