Samantha is a communication and social impact specialist. She is based in the Marshall Islands, where she has been working in sustainable resource management and climate change adaptation. She recently worked with FAO on their social communications campaign for the FISH4ACP project, getting more Marshallese engaged in sustainable tuna fisheries.
Samantha is an experienced communications and media professional with 15 years of experience working in Australia and the Pacific, focusing on communication for development and social change, as well as community-based media across print, radio, digital storytelling, and film. Samantha has run her own company and is working in community-based resource management. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Communication, Media and Culture) from the University of South Australia and a Master of Communication (Communication for Social Change) from the University of Queensland. She holds a professional Doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology, focusing on community cultural story mapping in community-based water management in the Solomon Islands. Last year, Samantha was a Research Collaboration and Innovation Exchange Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Samantha is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
