Mary Ann Kahana currently resides on generational land in Hamoa Village, Haneoʻo. She is from the Piʻilani lineage and feels blessed to return to her mother’s birth homeland. She earned a BS in Nursing from University of Hawaii and MSN from University of Phoenix, Family Nurse Practitioner. Mary Ann directly commissioned into the Air Force in 1997 and retired in 2017. Her deployment experience includes tours to Qatar, Djibouti, Balad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She joined Wākiu CDC because Hawaiians are landless in their own Kingdom of Hawaii. Ultimately, the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) role is to place Hawaiian beneficiaries on Hawaiian Home Lands. Our Kuleana is to support Hana beneficiaries with deep ancestral ties to remain and live in Hana such as Wākiu.
