Patrick Pihana Branco is the former State Representative for Hawai’i House District 50 (Kailua and Kane‘ohe Bay). He graduated from the Kamehameha Schools, and received his BA from Hawa?’i Pacific University and MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. Drawn to public service, Patrick joined the U.S. Foreign Service as a Diplomat in 2012. He served tours in Colombia, Pakistan, the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Secretary of State’s Operations Center, and Venezuela.
