Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 7, 1 Iulai 1986 — Kanahele Names Amaral Administrative Aide [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kanahele Names Amaral Administrative Aide

Annelle C. Amaral, former State Affirmative Action Coordinator, became the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Administrative Assistant June 16. Mrs. Amaral serves as principal staff assistant to OHA Administrator Kamaki A. Kanahele III. She is responsible for directing the administration of OHA's five program areas: Culture, Eeonomie Development, Education, Landand Natural Resources and Human Resources as well as other related matters. In her previous position, Mrs. Amaral was responsible for a state-wide program of Affirmative Action within state government involving a work force of approximately 32,000 employees. She is a former Honolulu Poliee Officer and in that capacity designed and implemented the Department's Rape Prevention Program. She also was responsiblefor the "Danger: Stranger" program whieh is being implemented in intermediate schools throughout the nation, and a Honolulu Poliee Department program of personal safety for the elderly. In recognition of her poliee work, Mrs. Amaral has received commendations from the State House of Representatives, the Honolulu City Council and the Office of the Mayor. In 1981, she was named Poliee Officer of the Year by the International Association of Women Poliee. Mrs. Amaral graduated from Star of the Sea High School in 1966 and received a bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Dayton in Ohio. In an interview with Ka Wai Ola O OHA, Mrs. Amaral said she brings with her a background in management and also a "different constituency, people identified as being disenfranchised from the mainstream in Hawaii; ethnic groups who have not gotten their pieee of the

pie". Mrs. Amaral said she feels these people "ean identify with the plight of the native Hawaiians and support the work whieh needs to be done to meet Hawaiian needs". She said she hopes to enlist the help of non-Hawaiians and others in the community whose talent and ability has not been utilized in the past to better the conditions of Hawaiians. Mrs. Amaral called her job "an exciting new ehallenge" and said she hopes to work toward improving communication between OHA, native Hawaiians, and the rest of the community.

Annelle C. Amaral