Hello there.
Resuma & Gomes is a Honolulu-based consultancy founded by Tyler Iokepa Gomes and Carmela Resuma — an attorney and housing policy executive and a nonprofit whisperer, data strategist, and community advocate.
We are data wizards, facilitation mavens, policy strategists, and political navigators who have worked from the legislature to the front line. Fluent in the language of funders, governments, legislators, and communities, we are skilled at translating between all of them.
Our practice spans organizational strategy, program evaluation, Native Hawaiian law and policy, destination stewardship, legislative advocacy, and capacity building — with a pricing model designed to serve both those who can pay and those who cannot.
The Receipts
For those who want the credentials — here they are.
Where we earned our degrees
William S. Richardson School of Law, NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Saint Elizabeth University
Where we've worked
Hawaiian Council, Elemental Excelerator, Family Promise, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, New York City Department of Education, Foundation for Learning & Youth Travel Education, American Civil Liberties Union, Good Shepherd Services
Where we show up in our free time
Hawaiʻi Habitat for Humanity Association, Kānaka Climbers, Hawaiʻi Land Trust, Hawaiʻi People's Fund, ʻAʻaliʻi Mentoring, Green Fee Advisory Council, Waimānalo Limu Hui, 808 Clean Ups