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Founder and President of Oak Leaf Cooperative School, a nature-based early childhood program launching in September 2022.

I'm the director and founder of Chavitos Nature School in Tacoma Washington. We are a bilingual school for preschool and elementary. I've been trained as a Montessori teacher and have 13 years of teaching experience in the classroom, internationally and as a Forest School teachers.

For the past decade, I've served American Samoa as a high school teacher and have worked with the University of Hawaii at Manoa for over seven years. I am the Founder for Finafinau, which is a nonprofit that promotes youth leadership for environmental advocacy and climate justice.