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University of the South Pacific, Performance Space
USP Laucala Bay
Suva, Central, 0000
Fiji

Fay Evangeline Volatabu

Is the Editor for I AM WOMAN and I AM TEEN Magazine. She co founded the magazine alongside Lorraine Foster Fay was a school teacher for 15 years after which she quit and joined a women advocate.

Lorraine Foster

Lorraine Foster is the owner of Vintage Link Fiji PTE and publisher for I AM WOMAN Print Magazine and I AM TEEN digital Magazine. She started the magazine when she was in her 50s. She is started the Rainbow Women’s Network [ One of the first Marginalised women’s group in Fiji – members were GLBTIQ and Sex Workers] and is part of the AWED [Ageing With Empowerment and Dignity] Group.

Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi

Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo-Sekiguchi is the Founder, and Creative and Innovation Director of The Greenhouse Studio, a multidisciplinary creative design and communications studio based in Fiji that was started with the philosophy that finding creative solutions can inspire real change in the world.

Mue Bentley Fisher

Communications Specialist turned entrepreneur, Mue Bentley Fisher. Mue and her husband Darran are the people behind Weta Coffee Fiji, an award-winning brand based in New Zealand. Mue will share with us her tips on starting a business from scratch, brand positioning and tackling gender stereotypes.

Raeed Ali

r. Raeed Ali, a Fijian Environmental activist and Youth Advocate, to introduce and establish the global Precious Plastic social entrepreneurship movement, in Fiji.He is also the Executive Team Member of the Alliance for Future Generations, which is Fiji’s fastest growing youth-led network that champions the voice and meaningful participation of young people towards sustainable development efforts.

Semi Lotawa

Semi Lotawa is an indigenous Fijian from Nalotawa Village, Yakete, Ba. He grew up in the traditional setting of his village, attended a remote boarding school and is one of about five percent of students from his district that graduated from high school.

Shaunalee katafono

Shaunalee is a Marine Science graduate from the University of the South Pacific. Before moving to Fiji with her family, she worked as a Fisheries Compliance officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Samoa. Combining her fisheries experience with her husband Kenneth's expertise in Information technology, they started TraSeable Solutions, a traceability tech company working to enable seafood and agriculture businesses in the Pacific to meet quality standards, access new markets and earn greater revenue for their products.