Kiʻilani Arruda (born April 13, 2002) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2020.
[4][5][2] Arruda attended Island School in Lihue, where she was elected student body president and graduated in 2020.
[2] Prior to becoming Miss Teen USA, she was a freshman at the University of Puget Sound, studying molecular and cellular biology on a pre-medical track, with a minor in Spanish.
Originally planned for the spring of 2020, the competition was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and later held on November 7, 2020, at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
[13] Arruda became the second competitor from Hawaii to win the competition, following Kelly Hu who won Miss Teen USA 1985.