Paula Akana is a Hawaii-based journalist and executive director at The Friends of Iolani Palace in Honolulu.

[1][2] She was formerly a broadcast television journalist with KITV Island News.

[3] Akana attended the Kamehameha Schools.

[2] Akana then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism with a minor in Hawaiian anthropology and archeology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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