Welcome, Danity!
After an extensive search, which has involved both a public call, as well as a private nomination, we have found our Pacific Fellow for 2018-2019!
Danity Laukon has been actively campaigning in the Marshall Islands and in Suva, Fiji, as a leading member of the Marshall Islands Student Association (MISA) to raise awareness about the Islands' nuclear history, and the perils shared between the pacific islands through this past. As a mother and an educator, Danity has a strong interest in passing on the Islands' values, traditions and history on to future generations of Marshallese. In addition to the legacy of nuclear testing, the Islands increasingly face threats of rising sea-levels associated with climate change.
During her fellowship, Danity will be talking to elders and capturing their precious wisdom and resilience, and sometimes horrific experiences and testimonies of nuclear testing on the Islands, and reaching out to students, community members and officials across the Pacific to share these unfortunately common experiences. She will join with others in MISA in their collective efforts to build a more peaceful, nuclear-free future in the Pacific.
Danity Laukon has been actively campaigning in the Marshall Islands and in Suva, Fiji, as a leading member of the Marshall Islands Student Association (MISA) to raise awareness about the Islands' nuclear history, and the perils shared between the pacific islands through this past. As a mother and an educator, Danity has a strong interest in passing on the Islands' values, traditions and history on to future generations of Marshallese. In addition to the legacy of nuclear testing, the Islands increasingly face threats of rising sea-levels associated with climate change.
During her fellowship, Danity will be talking to elders and capturing their precious wisdom and resilience, and sometimes horrific experiences and testimonies of nuclear testing on the Islands, and reaching out to students, community members and officials across the Pacific to share these unfortunately common experiences. She will join with others in MISA in their collective efforts to build a more peaceful, nuclear-free future in the Pacific.
