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Mary Heine Lanwi (born February 22, 1921) is an educator, activist, and promotor of traditional handicrafts in the Marshall Islands. A female pioneer on the islands, she has been described as "perhaps the first Marshallese woman to begin employment outside the home."
Alternative appellations for these women are Marshallese women, Marshall Islander women, Marshalls women, and women in Rālik-Ratak (literally women "facing toward the windward" [i.e. facing sunrise] and "facing toward the leeward" [i.e. facing sunset]).
In 2017, Jetn̄il-Kijiner made history by being the first Marshallese author to publish a book, a collection of poems entitled Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter. [6] Her book engages with themes of the human, socioeconomic, and environmental crisis that the Marshall Islands encountered due to the United States military occupation.
Hilda Cathy Heine (born 6 April 1951) is a Marshallese educator and politician. She has served as the president of the Marshall Islands since 2024, having previously served from 2016 to 2020. Heine was the first woman to lead any sovereign country in Micronesia and the first person from the Marshall Islands to earn a doctorate.
Darlene Keju, also known as Darlene Keju-Johnson, (1951 – June 18, 1996) was a Marshallese activist. She was born on Ebeye Island in the Marshall Islands group in 1951. The Northern Islands where she grew up were downwind from Bikini and Enewetak atolls where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: American: Marshallese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Marshallese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Kathryn Relang is a Marshallese women's rights activist, ... WUTMI is the national umbrella organisation for women's advocacy across the Marshall Islands. [2]
Evelyn Konou (11 January 1948 – 1 December 2020) [1] was a Marshallese politician. [2] She was a member of the Legislature of the Marshall Islands from 1993 to 1997. Konou was born in Majuro, the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. From 1993 to 1997, Konou represented the Jaluit electorate in the Marshall Islands Parliament, the ...