Alu like haunani apoliona biography
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Full Name: Suzanne Haunani Apoliona
Name on Ballot: Haunani Apoliona
District: Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee at large
Age: 67
Email Address: n/a
Current Job: Trustee, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
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Place of birth: Kalaepohaku
Campaign website:www.apoliona.org
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Job history past 10 years:
OHA trustee: 1996 to present, OHA chairwoman 2000-2010, OHA vice chairwoman 1997, OHA Resource Management Committee vice chairwoman 2015 to present. ALU LIKE Inc.: 1978 to 1997 (employment and training counselor0, intake placement specialist, community specialist, Oʻahu Island Center Administrator, Planner Health and Social Services, Program Operations Director), ALU LIKE President/CEO 1991-1997.
Ever run for public office? If so, when? Outcome?
Aloha e nā kama`āina a me nā malihini o Hawaiʻi nei. `Ae. Yes, I was elected trustee at-large for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the first time in November 1996.
Since then, I have been
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January 2004
Article by Katie Young
Haunani Apoliona has the hands of a musician but the heart of a native Hawaiian leader — a leader who's trying to design a new future for the people of Hawaii.
As a member of the local band Olomana, her thumbnails are left characteristically long — good for strumming her 12-string slack key guitar. But that's about the only visible sign that Apoliona, also the chairwoman and a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, is a musician.
In her 12th floor OHA office on Kapiolani Boulevard, Apoliona's desk is covered with papers and important documents, a ti plant decorates her cabinet, and a United States census map hangs on the door depicting the number of Hawaiians that reside in each of the Mainland states.
Apoliona's Monday morning has already included a press conference to talk about the history of OHA before she sits down with MidWeek for a lengthy interview. Then she rushes off to another meeting with Gov. Linda Lingle and Congressional delegates regarding the Akaka bill, currently stalled in Congress.
With so many Hawaiian issues at the forefront of the news these days, she is focused and thoughtful, indications that Apoliona takes her culture and her charge as a trustee seriously.
She says it has been her goal to bring about a re
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S. Haunani Apoliona, MSW
Nerve centre of Island Affairs Fiduciary At-Large
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