Iwalani Kanoelehua AhQuin (2020-2021)
Health Care Role: Director of Adult Day Care & Senior Activities
Organization: Lunalilo Home
Sponsoring Organization: Papa Ola Lokahi
Ms. AhQuin is the Director of Adult Day Care and Activities and Residential Kūpuna Activities. Her role is to develop, coordinate, and implement a variety of senior programs services that support the mission of the organization. She also coordinates all volunteers and on and off-site cultural programs and special events.
She is a graduate of University Laboratory School in Mānoa and has worked at Lunalilo Home since 1993 in increasingly responsible roles from data entry, office clerk, program coordinator when the Adult Day Care Center was first opened, to Interim Director in 2017 and then Director soon after. Ms. AhQuin is Lunalilo Homeʻs longest standing employee with 25+ years caring for kūpuna. She enjoys working with the kūpuna and says she learns new things from them every day.
Ms. AhQuin believes in Lunaliloʻs mission and values and entrusted her fatherʻs care to the Home for several years before his passing. She currently lives in Kailua and considers Lunalilo her second home.