MEET DELLA
MEET DELLA
Her agenda is simple: lower costs, stop Trump, and defend what makes Hawai‘i so special. That’s why her campaign is powered by people like you — not special interests or corporate PACs.
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Della Au Belatti was born and raised in Manoa Valley. After graduating as valedictorian of Maryknoll School, she studied American history at Princeton University and taught at Trenton Central High School to become a teacher. But Della never forgot her Hawai‘i roots, and after graduating, she returned to Hawai‘i to teach at her alma mater.
In her first year of teaching, Della challenged her students to answer the question, “What does it mean to participate effectively in a democracy?” In that moment, she knew her calling was to serve.
She attended law school at the University of Hawai‘i William S. Richardson School of Law, and went on to clerk for Judge Dexter Del Rosario in the First Circuit Court and Justice Simeon R. Acoba of the Hawai‘i State Supreme Court.
Della started a family with her husband Michael, a nurse of nearly two decades at Queen’s Medical Center. Together, they are raising their daughters Emma and Elyana in Makiki, where the girls attend the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa and Roosevelt High School.
In 2006, Della was elected to represent Hawai‘i State House District 25. For nearly 20 years, she has worked tirelessly to protect and expand the rights of the people of Hawai‘i. As Health Committee Chair and House Majority Leader, she led efforts to pass legislation protecting reproductive health care, fought to strengthen Hawai‘i’s mental health care services, and helped navigate the State through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But what keeps Della up at night is rising costs for families like hers. With everything from housing to groceries becoming less and less affordable, Della worries that her daughters will not be able to buy a home in Hawaiʻi or find a good job here. She’s tired of watching Donald Trump’s administration threaten our children’s futures with his dangerous policies, while politicians in Washington let him get away with it.
Della is running for Congress because she’s ready to fight back.
She’ll do whatever it takes to lower costs, protect the people of Hawai’i, and stop this administration’s erosion of our constitutional democracy.
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