Keola Awong is the new site manager for the Kahuku Unit within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. She will oversee staff and visitor programs in the 116,000-acre unit, which is open to the public from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on weekends. ADVERTISING
Keola Awong is the new site manager for the Kahuku Unit within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. She will oversee staff and visitor programs in the 116,000-acre unit, which is open to the public from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on weekends.
Awong has served as the park’s cultural anthropologist since 2005 and will continue to serve as the park’s liaison to the Native Hawaiian community. She holds a master of arts degree in American studies and graduate certificates in museum studies and historic preservation from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
She earned a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology with a minor in Hawaiian studies from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She began her career in the national park as a fee collector in 1999.
Kahuku, which was acquired by the National Park Service in 2003, is located in the Ka‘u District on the southwest rift zone of Mauna Loa.
