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Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner is a poet and Individual and political action on climate change, climate change activist from the Marshall Islands. Early life Jetn̄il-Kijiner was born in the Marshall Islands and raised in Hawaii. Her mother is Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands. Jetn̄il-Kijiner received her B.A. from Mills College in California and her MA in Pacific Island Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Career Jetn̄il-Kijiner's poetry highlights issues around the environment and climate change. She also explores social injustice including colonialism, migration, and racism. Her first collections of poetry, entitled ''Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter'', was published in 2017 by the University of Arizona Press. It is considered the first published book of poetry written by someone from the Marshall Islands. She is a cofounder of the environmental nonprofit organization Jo-Jikum (''Jodrikdrik in Jipan ene eo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory consists of 29 coral atolls and five main islands as well as 1,220 other very small ones, divided across two Archipelago, island chains: Ratak in the east and Ralik in the west. 97.87% of its territory is water, the largest proportion of water to land of any sovereign state. The country shares Maritime boundary, maritime boundaries with Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the southeast, Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west. The capital city, capital and largest city is Majuro, home to approximately half of the country's population. The Marshall Islands are one of only four atoll based nations in the entire world. Austronesian settlers reached the Marshall Islands as early as the 2nd millennium BC and introduced Southeas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
