2024 Pacific Indigenous Women’s Conference

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

“Weaving a Transpacific Indigenous

Women’s Network”

June 7-8, 2024

REGISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPANTS
REGISTRATION FOR INVITED FESTPAC DELEGATES

This two-day event calls Pacific indigenous sisters together to weave a network of relationships across the Pacific. On June 7th, we will gather in a luncheon to hear our elders’ call to respond to the challenges experienced by our communities. On June 8th, the Pacific Indigenous Women’s Network (PIWN) will convene an all-day indigenous women’s conference to discuss community concerns impacting our well-being. The conference will discuss opportunities for working together by strengthening collaborations and the mobilization of resources to better serve our homelands.

Friday, June 7, 2024

11AM

  • Registration Opens
  • Networking and Hawaiian Music

11:30AM

  • Lunch is served

12:45PM

  • Wehena- Opening Ceremony and Remarks (Hawaiʻi)

1:45PM

  • Keynote Presentation by Mililani Trask (Hawaiʻi)

2:30PM

  • Elder Council Presentation- “The Role of Pacific Indigenous Women in Caring for our Communities & Preparing the Next Generation” – Hema Wihongi (Aotearoa), Faye Untalan (Guahan), Grace Serious (Chuuk), and a Hawaiʻi kupuna

4:15PM

  • Closing Remarks and Announcements

Saturday, June 8, 2024

8AM

  • Registration Opens

8:45AM

  • Opening Blessing (Guahan)
  • Announcements

9AM

  • Panel Presentation- “Indigenous Women Leading Environmental Justice and Empowering Sustainability”

11AM

  • Panel Presentation- “Mauliola: Taking Care of Self, Girls, and Family”

12:30PM

  • Lunch is served

1PM

  • Lunch Keynote Presentation by Laura Souder (Guahan)

2PM

  • Collective Visioning for the Pacific Indigenous Women Network

4PM

  • Reporting Back

4:45PM

  • Closing Remarks and Announcements