Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 5, 1 May 2014 — Dee Jay Mailer appointment [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dee Jay Mailer appointment

President Barack Obama has appointed retired Kamehameha Schools CEO Dee Jay Mailer and 13 others to the President's Advi-

sory Commission on Asian Americans and Paeihe Islanders. The panel advises the president on ways

to engage the nation's Asian Americans and

Paeihe Islanders and improve their health, education, environment and well-being. Mailer retired as CEO on April 1, a post she has held since 2004. Previously she held C00 positions for the Geneva-based private foundation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Heahh Net of California; and Kaiser Permanent Medical Care Program Hawai'i Region. According to the Star-Adver-tiser, the panel will be led by Dr. Tung Thanh Nguyen, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Mary Ann Young Okada, president of Guam Community College. Commissioners will be sworn in May 6 in Washington, D.C.

Dee Jay Mailer