Longtime OHA Leader Rowena Akana Has Died

A long-serving member of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees, Rowena Akana, has died. She was 82.

OHA announced her death Thursday. Further details were not immediately available.

First elected to a seat on the OHA Board of Trustees in 1990, Akana served nearly three decades in office. She was elected seven straight times and served twice as board chair…

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