Our Program Leadership
Our program team guarantees that all of our health, food, elder, youth, and cultural programs are staffed with the greatest hospitality we can offer our Oceanian village. They are our hands and feet. They have the lived experiences and expertise to serve in culturally responsive and humanistic ways while serving with excellence and love. They ensure our programs are consistent, responsive to need, and culturally relevant.
Raven Atonio
Youth Program Manager
Fetuli Tafa
Village Market Manager
Vaitafe Mageo
Matua Ambassadors Advisor
Koleti Michael
Senior Program Manager
Tilia Stewart
'Oloa Pasifika
Co-Owner
Our Village Navigators
Our village navigators contribute significant heart to the work of Oceania NW and we are so grateful for the ways that they share their mana to take care of our villages all across the Puget Sound region. They speak our sacred languages and maintain powerful presence to help support our Pasifika Diaspora. They serve as our diverse voices for Oceania, ensuring that our unique experiences are valued and honored.
Elisapeta Tafa
Samoan Village Navigator
Coleen Joel
Micronesian Village Navigator
Lavenia Natuna
Itaukei Village Navigator
Jeivet Kenelak
West Papuan Village Navigator
Patricia Anni
Marshallese Village Navigator
Oceania Youth Navigators
Our Oceania 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 community on environmental racism and also on local solutions that our community can engage in to change our lived environment for the better. They co-design and facilitate our Oceania Youth Collective and also our Tautai Freedom School.
James Peckenpaugh
Native/Samoan
Joehanson Peter
Chuukese
Monica Pese
Samoan
Kasi Fuahala
Tongan
Rina Sulusi
Samoan
Toetaua Posala
Samoan
Joseph Cherry
Fijian/Black
Emmanuel Tafa
Samoan
Michael Stewart
Tongan
Talafou Posala
Samoan
AJ Loeak
Marshallese
Our Leadership Board
Our Board consist of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders who are well integrated in the lives of our village network and are commited to the Oceanian liberation work of perputuating the wisdom of our ancestors. They are intimately involved in supporting our programs and services.
Shirley Miriama Laulu
Kekai Hedrix Leialoha
Dr. Ponipate Rokolekutu
Mosese Fonua
Mareta Aitulagi
