"....The family settled in Hawaii when she was sixteen. Her father was unemployed for a time, and the family relied on public assistance.[10] She graduated with honors from McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985, having skipped the ninth grade. She graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and later received a Master of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.[14]......."
It looks like she was in Hawaii in school at the time and that this was another person of the same name.
“It looks like she was in Hawaii in school at the time and that this was another person of the same name.”
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Afraid someone’s barking up the wrong tree on this one, there’s a number of women with the name.