Elisapeta 'Peta' Tuupo‐Alaimaleata is an American-Samoan educator. Tuupo‐Alaimaleata was born and raised in

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. She has a master's degree in education from the

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. Tuupo‐Alaimaleata began her career in education as a classroom teacher in American Samoa. She then worked for the University of Hawaii’s Manoa teacher training program as a teacher coordinator. She has also worked on a number of literacy development and community empowerment projects at the university. Tuupo‐Alaimaleata has a history of working with the wider Samoan community to promote Samoan heritage, language, and culture. While teaching Samoan at the First Samoan Methodist Church in

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she saw the need for a more established language school and so founded the Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center in

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. The school is the first of its kind in Hawaii and provides free Samoan language education, specifically targeting children and young people. As founder, Tuupo‐Alaimaleata was instrumental in establishing the school and securing support for it from the

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and Hawai'i People's Fund. She is currently Executive Director of the school. Internationally, she is a voice for issues around the Samoan language and language preservation, including at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education and Sosaiete Aota Amata Samoa I Aotearoaconference.

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Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuupo-Alaimaleata, Elisapeta Living people American people of Samoan descent American Samoan educators University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

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