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.
Oceania Youth Navigators
Oceania NW houses our Oceania Youth Navigators internship program. Our Youth Navigators 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 in to change our lived environment for the better. They also work with Oceania NW to co-create and facilitate our Oceania Youth Collective and also our Tautai Freedom School.
James Peckenpaugh
Samoan/Native
Joehanson Peter
Chuukese
Monica Pese
American Samoan
Rina Sulusi
American Samoan
Toetaua Posala
Samoan/Fijian
Joseph Cherry
Fijian/Black
Kasi Fuahala
Tongan
Emmanuel Tafa
Samoan
Michael Stewart
Tongan
Michael Stewart
Samoan/Fijian
