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Pacific
Pacific: American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands, & Republic of Palau

Director, REL Pacific
Dr. Nolan Malone

Dr. Nolan J. Malone is Vice President for Pacific Operations at McREL, Director of McREL's Pacific Center for Changing the Odds, and Director of the REL Pacific contract. Dr. Malone holds a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania. His specific areas of expertise are demography, research methods, racial and ethnic well-being, culture-based education, Native Hawaiian history and culture, and integration/acculturation in the United States.

Prior to his work at McREL, Malone served as a director of Research & Evaluation at Kamehameha Schools (KS) in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a demographic analyst at the U.S. Census Bureau, as a project manager at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center, and as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.