HI Regional team
NAR in Hawaii.
1 ambassador organizing the count locally. 5 Albanians on the registry from Hawaii so far.
Director of Outreach
National outreach director.
Sets cross-state strategy and recruits state directors. Hawaii's ambassadors report up here until a state-specific director is seated.
Iliriana Sela
Director of Outreach · National
Hawaii ambassadors report to Iliriana.
Ambassadors in Hawaii
Regional ambassadors on the ground.
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Muhamed Meti Rama
Regional Ambassador · Honolulu
We are small community here, but I would like for us to be organized and try to help each other.
Why Hawaii matters
A real count is where the work starts.
ACS 2024 estimate
200
Federal count
Community estimate
800–1,000
Methodology page
On NAR today
5
From Hawaii
Capture rate
2.50%
vs. ACS
As Hawaii's Albanian community becomes visible in the data systems institutions actually use, the recognition story gets stronger — for bilingual-ballot petitions in jurisdictions with significant limited-English Albanian populations, for hospital interpreter staffing, for school home-language reporting, and for university heritage programs. None of these unlock automatically from a count; they come from sustained organizing on top of one. The Census ACS stays the official federal source; NAR builds the parallel community count alongside it.
Hawaii ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 200 (2024). Nationwide the Census counts 224,000 Albanian Americans while community estimates put us close to a million — and the same gap shows up here. NAR is the community-led parallel count that sits alongside the ACS, one self-attestation at a time.
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Each state seats up to three Regional Ambassadors plus one state outreach lead. Volunteer role. Listed publicly. Reimbursed expenses for one local event a year.
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