Youth Engagement & Empowerment
Our Oceania Youth Collective comprises of Pacific Islander youth from our local high schools who come together to engage in leadership development, cultural identity formation, connect with Pacific Islander mentors, and create a peer-led network dedicated to learning Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian histories and cutlures. Through Oceania Youth Collective, young people can access case management to support them in accomplishing their employment, vocational and social cultural development goals.
Pasifika Youth Navigators
Oceania NW houses our Pasifika Youth Navigators internship program where we employ six Pasifika Youth Navigators who work together to promote environmental justice issues that impact the health and wellness of the wider Pasifika Diaspora. They do this through co-creating culturally rooted social media content to educate our wider community on environmental racism and also on local solutions that our community members can engage to change our lived environment for the better. They also work with Oceania NW to co-create and facilitate our Oceania Youth Collective.
AJ Loeak
Pasifika Youth Navigator
James Peckenpaugh
Pasifika Youth Navigator
Joehanson Peter
Pasifika Youth Navigator
Monica Pese
Pasifika Youth Navigator
Rina Sulusi
Pasifika Youth Navigator
Toetaua Posala
Pasifika Youth Navigator
Joseph Cherry
Pasifika Youth Navigator
