Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu is a Tongan/Pacific Islander scholar, poet and community organizer. She received her doctorate from the Comparative Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is on the founding committee of the Moana Nui Pacific Islander Climate Justice Project and Oceania Coalition of Northern California (OCNC), community organizations working for Indigenous Pacific Islander self-determination through organizing land and climate justice projects, facilitating groups and Ceremony with Pacific Islander prisoners in Northern California as well as creating solidarities with California American Indian tribes to protect Indigenous Sacred spaces in California and in the Pacific. Fui hosts a radio segment titled “From Moana Nui to California; Indigenous Stories of Land” on 94.1 KPFA radio. In addition,she is also part of Sogorea Te Land Trust, an Urban Indigenous women’s land trust located in Oakland, California and she  hosts the Sogorea Te Land Trust “Seeding Hope” speaker series, a bi-monthly program that features distinguished Indigenous leaders, artists, scholars and cultural bearers from California and around the globe in conversation about issues of land rematriation, land and climate justice and centering Indigenous cultural practices as pathways for decolonization. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is part of the Pacific Islander Studies Initiative petitioning the state of California to include Pacific Islander Studies and Arab American Studies in the Ethnic Studies curriculum.