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Biography
Honolulu immigration attorney Clare Hanusz didn’t become a lawyer to get rich.
“Her mission in life was helping people,” said former law colleague John Robert Egan. “She was very good at it.”
Hanusz, 54, who died in February 2023 at her Honolulu home following a two-year battle with breast cancer, was a passionate advocate for immigrants in Hawaii and worked a number of high-profile cases over the years.
Hanusz, who founded Aloha Immigration in June 2017, was one of the state’s top experts on asylum law and policy, and frequently appeared in the media to explain the complex and politically charged subject.
Born Clare Marie Hanusz in Toledo, Ohio, she would eventually land in Hawaii in 1995 after her husband, Nevzat Soguk, was hired as a political science professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.