Naima Te Maile Fifita
2024-2025 Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader
Founder and Director, Moana Tasi Project
Tuvalu
Naima Te Maile Fifita is the founder and director of the Moana Tasi Project, an environmental nonprofit that supports Pacific communities facing climate change displacement. Naima documents the lived experiences and traditional ecological wisdom of Pacific Islanders facing climate-induced displacement, while contributing to the legal discourse on this issue in the Pacific. She is also a member of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law Secretariat and a Council Member for the World Future Council. Her Pacific Islander and multicultural upbringing and world-embracing views have motivated her engagement in numerous environmental spaces, particularly environmental justice and nonprofit work, legal research, and policy transformation. Naima is dedicated to creating space for painful but restorative conversations about loss, belonging, and identity.
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