Board of directors

ROWENA CAPUNO / Co-President
Rowena Capuno is an educator dedicated to embedding empathy, healing, self-knowledge, and creativity in all learning spaces.  She has over 12 years of teaching experience as an English teacher in New York City and Denver, CO.  After 8 years of teaching in New York City public schools, Rowena began teaching at a charter school in Denver supporting English Language Learners in AP Literature and AP Language, and taught teaching AP Capstone classes (Research and Seminar) through the lens of social justice. She also served as the 12th Grade Chair to help enact change through equitable liberatory student practices, student identity work, community building, and student agency. 

Rowena is also a Moonshot Fellow, an educational leadership program for BIPOC and female leaders who are reimagining education, designing innovative schools and programs, and disrupting the status quo.  Through this experience and Rowena's own continued self-connection and exploration, professionally and personally, she learned of kapwa, her Filipino heritage's concept of a shared self--"I am because you are."  Rowena graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts and from  Fordham University with a Master of Science in Teaching. She is currently the Educator and Professional Development Facilitator at Childrenʻs Environmental Literacy Foundation.

DAVE VUONG / Treasurer
Dave, Chinese-American, is the son of Vietnamese refugees (parents are ethnically Chinese but were born and raised in Vietnam) who fled Vietnam as a result of the Vietnam War, spent six months at a refugee camp in Malaysia before arriving in the United States in 1979.  He grew up in the suburbs of Boston and is a graduate of Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a concentration in Accounting. 

Dave is a certified public accountant and has spent over nine year working in public accounting and six plus years in accounting in the advertising, hospitality and tech industry.  He has previously worked for Mayer Hoffman McCann, UHY LLP, KPMG, Symphony Talent, Time Out Group, Soho House Sparks Network. He currently works as a US Controller at Allison Worldwide.

JENNIFER TUCKER / Board Member
Jennifer is a former professional dancer with numerous New York, East Coast regional, and touring credits under her belt. In her young adult years, she was blessed to study dance under the mentorship of such greats as Anne Reinking, Gregory Hines, and Milton Meyers. Ultimately, many life changes led her to return to school and she earned her undergraduate degree at University of Maryland, her nursing degree at the Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and later her Master’s in Nursing at New York Universtiy. Her path eventually brought her to Hawaii where she continues to work as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at The Queen’s Medical Center. In 2021, she completed a certificate program in Medicinal Plants through Cornell Universtiy. 

Since relocating to Hawaii, Jennifer has studied hula under her Kumu, Auli’i Aweau, as a member of Na Wahine O Laʻakea Hula in Kaneohe. In 2019 she had the life-changing privilege of standing with the Kia’i (protectors) on Mauna Kea, and she is involved with local activism whenever possible. The mission of Dancers Unlimited is a marriage of Jennifer’s passions: Performing Arts, Social Justice, Diversity/Inclusion/Equity, Sustainability, Aloha ʻĀina, and holding reverence for cultural practices and heritage. She is beyond thrilled to support the vision of the creative director and the artists of DU. 

KEHAULANI VOLHEIN / Co-President
Kehaulani Volhen is an Oʻahu native, born and raised on the Windward side. She has a BA in Business Administration from Chaminade University (Hawaiʻi) and was recently the the Executive Administrator at the nonprofit KEY Project. She has had varied careers throughout her life spanning from high level customer service, human resources, operations management, event coordination, entrepreneurship, but she has always had a love for movement as a former dancer and fitness instructor. She spent five years (2017-2022) living in and exploring Europe, which has given her a broad perspective of culture and the world around us. She is married 22 years and has two amazing children. She loves reading, dancing, photography, and values family time more than anything. Kehau first joined Dancers Unlimited in 2010 as a volunteer coordinator for National Dance Week Hawaiʻi.

AURELIEN GUICHARD / Board Member
Co-founder and CEO of VERSD, a digital management platform powering culture for creators, studios and venues, Aurelien also brings with him experience in programming, strategy and entrepreneurship. A Bboy from Paris, Aurelien is an active member of the dance communities in NYC and beyond.

STACEY YOUNG / Board Member
Stacey "`Onipa`a" Young is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area with roots in Hilo, Hawai`i. She has danced for Kumu Hula Vicky Holt-Takamine, the late Kumu Hula Tatiana Kaneholani, and The Spirit of Polynesia's James Kimo Barid. Stacey is proud to represent a family legacy of public service, business administration, and operational management. Professionally, Stacey is a Product Leader in the AdTech industry, where she has worked to set industry guidelines, and holds technology patents in the US and EU. She is a New York resident since 2014 and has been a pillar of the wider Pacific Island community through her service as a board member of Hālāwai NYC, and founder of Pacific Island Film Festival NYC.