Kolas Yotaka

Kolas Yotaka

Kolas Yotaka (Chinese: 谷辣斯·尤達卡; born 17 March 1974), formerly Yeh Guan-lin (Chinese: 葉冠伶), is an Amis Taiwanese politician and journalist. Since 2020, she has served as spokesperson for the Office of the President under Tsai Ing-wen. Kolas previously served as spokesperson for the Executive Yuan in 2018, the first Taiwanese aboriginal to hold the position. As a journalist, Kolas has worked as a reporter for Formosa Television and as a news anchor for the Taiwan Indigenous Television. Kolas went on to become the director for the Aboriginal People's Administration of the Taoyuan City Government. In 2016, she was elected as a non-divisional legislator and an aboriginal affairs representative of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In 2017, she was elected as a visiting scholar of the US Department of State's International Leadership Program.

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