Tim’s interests center around social justice and public interest law.
He is a founding member and board chair emeritus of the Defend O‘ahu
Coalition, former shop steward for Unite HERE! (Local 5), and community
organizer with the AiKea Movement. Tim brings over 25 years of non-profit
volunteer fundraising experience in local community and statewide
enterprises.

Tim served as Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i (DPH) from 2016-2018. As leader of the DPH, he increased grassroots fundraising over 200%,
expanded member engagement and neighbor island accessibility, and
divested the DPH from First Hawaiian Bank due to their support for the
Dakota Access Pipeline.

As member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Western Vice-
President of the Association of State Democratic Chairs (ASDC), he drafted
the first national resolution calling for the establishment of a Climate
Conservation Corps (adopted in 2018), a resolution which later became part of
the blueprint for the Green New Deal and Section 215 of President Biden’s
Executive Order 14008.

Vandeveer holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and is a 2017
graduate of the University of Hawai‘i William S. Richardson School of Law,
receiving a certificate in Environmental Law. At Richardson, he was a
founding member of the Energy Justice Working Group (EJWG) and served
on the Motions Drafting Team at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Honolulu.