Dr. Carl R. Ackerman is the recipient of a Presidential scholarship from President George H.W. Bush. He earned a Ph.D. in European History at U.C. Berkeley. Having taught history for 37 years in Hawaii at the Punahou (President Barack Obama's school/5th-12th grades) and 'Iolani Schools in Honolulu, Carl also founded and developed the Clarence T.C. Ching Partnerships in Unlimited Educational Opportunities (PUEO) Program. 

 

Carl is a board member of the Atherton YMCA, Youth Service Hawaii, and Straub Hospital. Carl lives in the lovely Mānoa Valley in Honolulu with his wife, Dr. Lyn Kajiwara Ackerman. His oldest daughter, Laura, is an assistant professor at Emory University, and his youngest daughter, Jennifer is at Arizona State Univeristy as an undergraduate in the Barrett Honors College.