Iakwe aolep – it’s been a while since my last blog post. Last year was hectic and instead of updating my blog alongside my social media I fell off the map after my journey to Enewetak. So to kick off this year’s blog posts I’d like to focus on coming to terms with a new piece of advice given to… Read More
It’s been over two weeks since I left COP23, and I’m only now beginning to unravel what I learned. When I started this blog post, it was meant to be a broad overview of this recent conference – but I ended up focused on one of our actions that began our trip: a traditional Fijian ceremony we held alongside… Read More
The following is a bit of a #latepost – it was originally published in the website under the Pacific based non-profit PREL (Pacific Resources for Education and Learning) Pacific Storyteller’s Cooperative. This was published on October 30, before I headed out to COP23 in Germany. My work for COP23 began this past year in Fiji, where I attended my first retreat… Read More
I’m back to rainy Portland, Oregon, after I spent three weeks of September in Majuro for a weaving training. For three weeks I learned from master weavers back home – mostly under Terse Timothy, a woman elder from the island of Ailinlaplap. Terse has been credited with reviving the traditional jaki-ed weaving. It was an honor to learn from her…. Read More
We just lost two climate champions for the Marshall Islands within days of each other – former Minister Mattlan Zackhras and former Climate Ambassador Tony DeBrum. Both were major players on the international scene, in raising awareness on climate change and also on nuclear testing. But they were also just good, humble men who were grandfathers, fathers, uncles, brothers,… Read More
Note: this was originally posted for prel.storytellers.org. This past week I’ve been in Palau attending the Pacific Education Conference where I presented on “Activating Youth Voices for the International Stage” alongside my friend, photographer Daniel Lin from the non-profit PREL (Pacific Resources for Education and Learning). After the presentation, a woman came up to me. She said she had… Read More
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