| Keali'i Lopez | |
| Office: | Chair of the Hawaii Democratic Party |
| Term Start: | May 30, 2018 |
| Term End: | August 6, 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Tim Vandeveer |
| Successor: | Gary Hooser (Acting) |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Education: | Windward Community College University of Hawaii, Manoa (BA) |
Keali'i Lopez is an activist and lobbyist[2] who served as the chairperson of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from May 2018 until her resignation in August 2019.[3] She was appointed director of Hawaii State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs on December 4, 2010, and her term ended on December 1, 2014.[4] Prior to that, she was an executive at a Hawaii nonprofit that ran several public-access television channels. She received a bachelor's degree in communications at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
On August 6, 2019, Lopez announced that she had accepted a nonpartisan position at the state offices of the AARP, forcing her to resign her position as Democratic Party chairperson mid-way through her two-year term.