Bernadette Baraquio Hamada

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Bernadette Baraquio Hamada is an American journalist and entertainer from the state of Hawaii. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was one of the only Filipino Americans on television featured on a regular basis in the state. Born and raised in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hamada graduated from Moanalua High School in 1991. After a year at Seattle University, she returned to the Hawaiian Islands to study at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she obtained a degree in broadcast journalism in 1996. After a short stint at a local news radio program Hamada was hired by KHON, the leading news station in the Honolulu market at the time. First a news assistant and later a producer, Hamada became the news anchor for the top rated morning news program in 1999. Hamada left KHON and married conservative radio talk show host Rick Hamada. She was later hired by the leading locally produced cable network in Hawaii, Oceanic 16, to host her own series of variety programs.

Hamada is the sister of Miss America 2001 Angela Perez Baraquio. She has a twin sister, Therese Baraquio.