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Top Asian American Pacific Islander Unsung Heroes 2009
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu i is a Tongan American scholar, poet and community organizer. She is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley. She is co-editor of "Usos On Freeways: An Anthology of Pacific Islander Writers From/In the Continental United States" a collection that will be published in Fall 2010. Fuifuilupe is a founding and/or board member of several advocacy organizations for Pacific Islander communities in Northern and Southern California including IPIA, the Indigenous Pacific Islanders Alliance; (a graduate student organization at UC Berkeley that is committed to organizing programs on campus and in Pacific Islander communities that address the invisibility of PIs in higher education) The Chancellors' Advisory Committee for Native Americans and Pacific Islanders at UC Berkeley; OLO/One Love Oceania, ( a Pacific Islander queer women's political action group); Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Health Alliance ( a political action organization advocating for health equity for Pacific Islander communities) and the Pacific Islander Pipeline Programs in Southern California (an organization fighting to expand the numbers of Pacific Islanders in higher education and to give Pacific Islanders greater institutional access to higher education).
Fuifuilupe currently works with community organizations and prisoners advocating for prisoners' rights here in California.
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Congratulations sistah Fui. You deserve the recognition for all your great work in community. Blessings of our ancestors. One Love.
Congratulations sistah Fui. You deserve the recognition for all your great work in community. Blessings of our ancestors. One Love.
I have heard so much about you...Have not had the opportunity to meet you Fuifuilupe but I've met your sister Amelia. Congratulations! Malo! all the very best for doing excellent work for our communities here on the continent. Thanks to Val for the link!
God bless!
She is awesome!:)
Fuifuilupe is an inspiration to all with her fine works, infectious good spirit, and everlasting love and devotion for the people. Excellent selection!
Love you so much Fui - And, if you get to give a speech, you should start off with "And I'd like to thank the academy, and I'd like to thank my sister Hara and, ok, you get it.
Ofa lahi atu
Hara
FOR REALZ People, Fui exudes beauty. She is absolutely one of my sheros.
I know Fui through her sister Loa. Not only is she an amazing organizer and inspirational she is a really caring and kind person.
I have had the privilege of working with Fui, and there is no word in any language that can encompass the essence of who and what Fui is for the Pacific Islander community, the LGBTQ community, the third-world community and any other community she endeavors to work for!
Her very presence brings out the AWESOMENESS in those who have had the pleasure of being around her!
Whatever the outcome, Fui will always be a hero!
And as for being unsung - I'll sing for her any day! LOL!
LOVE YOU FUI!
Big Ups to you honey!! Congratulations!
Fui is one amazing person, she is active, inspirational, artistic, caring, respectful, and knows when to have FUn.
I saw her as one of the great Pacific Islander organizers in my time through my own eyes.
Much Love to FUI!
Fui has an amazing, kind, and healing spirit... which are just a few qualities she uses to work for change in the community. Whether it's through formal community events Fui has organized, or informal conversations you have at a backyard BBQ, you leave Fui's presence feeling encouraged, inspired, and motivated to join the work she does to make change in a creative, sustainable, and honest way.
Fui is a true model for the Polynesian community of a strong, intelligent, and insightful Pacific Islander woman who navigates her mulitple positionalities fluidly and effectively through her work. She is 100% committed and present for everything she is involved with-- with a rare humility and genuine devotion to our communities that truly makes her an unsung hero. It's definitely been such an honor to work with her!
Fui has an amazing, kind, and healing spirit... which are just a few qualities she uses to work for change in the community. Whether it's through formal community events Fui has organized, or informal conversations you have at a backyard BBQ, you leave Fui's presence feeling encouraged, inspired, and motivated to join the work she does to make change in a creative, sustainable, and honest way.
Fui is a true model for the Polynesian community of a strong, intelligent, and insightful Pacific Islander woman who navigates her mulitple positionalities fluidly and effectively through her work. She is 100% committed and present for everything she is involved with-- with a rare humility and genuine devotion to our communities that truly makes her an unsung hero. It's definitely been such an honor to work with her!
Fui!!! Congratulations!! You are an inspiration to our family and the Polynesian community!! You GO GIRL!!!
luvs
Jahna
As always, I am so proud of my beautiful and brilliant friend. She is one of the most sincerely warm and generous people I've met in Berkeley, and I am so grateful to be in the Comparative Ethnic Studies department with her. She deserves this recognition--and so much more.
YOU GO GRRRL!!
MUCH LOVE ALWAYS!!!!
Fui is my hero!!! She is amazing yet humble and like Dallas, I would sing for her any day!!! (and I can't sing at all! LOL)
my heroe,my hope and my sista from a different mister. Grateful that our paths have crossed and very inspirational in my quest as a younger pacific islander,one of the first pacific islander women i can say as a positive role model. Most well deserved unsung heroe!!!!. Love u fuifuilicious=)
Congratulations Fui! Thank you for being a wonderful example. Thank you for all your hard work.
'ofa lahi atu, 'ams
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