She is pausing her BSN studies and furthering community work in serving our Pacific Islanders in Washington state as the Director of Community Services here at PICA-WA (Pacific Islander Community Association of Washington), as well as a member of the Providence Institute for a Healthier Community (PIHC). Currently residing in the city of Marysville, Washington. She is certified and taught First Aid & CPR to the Fijian Community in both Washington and Northern California.Īmelia is a proud single mother to two boys Joseph and Samuel. She also volunteered at the Glide Memorial Church in the city of San Francisco and started the Island Breeze dance team at young age. Upon temporary stay in California was the Youth Director for Metro Church, Santa Rosa.

She attended Everett Community College in Everett, Washington then moved onto American River College in Sacramento, California.Īmelia volunteered with the Salvation Army Everett Corp and Cedarwood Food Pantry in Mountlake Terrace. She briefly attended Mariner High School and then moved onto Lynnwood High School graduating as the class of 2001. She migrated to Everett, Washington in 1998 and has resided here since. She attended Suva Primary School and Suva Grammar School in the Fiji Islands. She recognizes the barriers in relation to societal structure that stands in the way of our social mobility, and is motivated to help her people overcome those barriers.īorn August 1983 in the Fiji Islands to Timoci and Loata Ratuniyauravu, Amelia Bai is the second of five siblings, fluent in writing, reading and speaking both Fijian and English. This work inspired her to further provide resources to the Pasifika community, who are still trying to adapt to the Western world. Arleen was fortunate to be a “secondary tutor” for High school students under the Highline public school as a 3rd year in college. She is proud to be Pasifika because the strength and the wits her ancestors carried were so grand, and she aspires to carry the same qualities. She moved to Kent, Washington as a middle schooler and was fortunate through the grace of God to join the Husky Pack at the University of WA a few years later. She moved to Hawaii as a 9-year-old with her family for educational and job opportunities.

She was born and raised in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. Arleen Marston is a Kosraean 4th year student at the University of WA and your Pasifika Wellness Navigator.

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