President / Chairperson
As President at PBR HAWAII, Ms. Yuen manages a variety of planning and design projects as well as the successful preparation of land use permits, environmental assessments, and environmental impact statements. Her work includes a diverse range of regional and long-range land plans, master planned communities, public and private sector projects, community engagement and meeting facilitation, urban design, educational facilities, and park master plans.
She has coordinated and led extensive community engagement efforts, testified in front of various boards, commissions, and councils, and spoken at various seminars and educational programs for The Seminar Group, Hawai‘i State Bar Association, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Hawai‘i Chapter Developing Leaders Group, the Institute of Transportation Engineers Hawai‘i Section, Hawaiʻi Pacific University, and The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Shidler College of Business.
Ms. Yuen has served on the Board of Directors for the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority (HTA) as Second Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Hoʻokahua Hawaiʻi Standing Committee. She also chaired the HTA’s Strategic Plan Investigative Committee that oversaw the 2020 update and worked closely with the HTA leadership team on the development of the Destination Management Action Plans for each island. She is also actively involved in several professional organizations including the Urban Land Institute for which she is on the Management Committee and cochairs the Women’s Leadership Initiative Committee, the American Planning Association Hawaiʻi Chapter, for which she has served as President, Vice President, and the APA/UH DURP Liaison. She is Past President of the Lambda Alpha International Aloha Chapter, a land economics honor society, and currently serves on the boards of the Hawaiʻi Architectural Foundation and Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi.
