Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 12, Number 11, 1 November 1995 — OHA hires new eeonomie development staff [ARTICLE]

OHA hires new eeonomie development staff

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has hired Jean Keala Luka as one of the agency's two eeonomie development specialist. Luka comes to OHA after four years working for the Administration for Native Americans in Washington D.C.

Prior to that she worked as a deputy puhlie defender for the Office of the Puhlie defender, a law clerk for the State of Hawai'i Judicairy and as a legislative assistant for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Luka has also worked as a volunteer attorney for the Native Hawaiian Advisory Council. A graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Luka has a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.H. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and is a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law. Luka will work will focus primarily on OHA's communitybased eeonomie development projects She will be working with eeonomie development specialist Joan Bolte under Chris vanBergeijk who was named eeonomie development officer early this year.