Our staff 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. We have staff who are rooted in South King, Snohomish & and Pierce County. We ensure that all our health, food, elder, youth, and cultural programs are staffed with the greatest hospitality we can offer our people. We have the lived experiences to serve in culturally responsive and humanistic ways.

Amelia Bai Dudley, Itaukei, provides leadership oversight over our programs. Born in Fiji and emigrating over to the US when she was 14, she knows intimately the struggles of her fellow Pasifika folks who share in the immigrant experience that are often treated as burdens and not as the gifts that they are to our villages here in the US Diaspora. She is a proud mother of two, Seva & Samuela.

Joseph Seia, Samoan/Tongan/Maori, is a proud queer Pasifikan who brings 20 years of nonprofit leadership and anti-racist community organizing work to the table. He fares from the villages of Vaimoso, Lufilufi, Salani & Asau in Independent Samoa. Joseph graduated from Seattle University receiving his Bachelors in Public Affairs and Theology and his Masters in Public Administration.