As Community Engagement Director, Lise Vaughan-Sekona will oversee the development and implementation of community outreach initiatives for OHA to help inform, involve and engage the Native Hawaiian community, working closely with OHA’s advocacy, communications, and land divisions. Vaughan-Sekona oversees a team of OHA beneficiary services agents located on five islands with kuleana to help identify high-priority needs, interests and initiatives within their respective communities and find ways for OHA to engage with and support them.
Prior to joining OHA’s leadership team, Vaughan-Sekona was the program development and grant manager at EPIC (Effective Planning & Innovative Communication) ‘Ohana, a Hawaiʻi nonprofit corporation devoted to family conferencing, facilitation, training and program development. She has also served as vice president of community services at the Domestic Violence Action Center, and for 12 years was a private practice attorney focusing in the areas of contracts, mediation, Indigenous Peoples, Native Hawaiian rights, landlord/tenant, real property and administrative law.
