Chef Judy Tatios
By: Amber Perrodin & Chef Daniel Hintz Born in Orange County, California to parents from the Marshall Islands, Chef Judy Tatios learned from an early age to experiment in the kitchen with a wide variety…
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Comments about Vaccine Outreach among Marshallese Taken out of Context
On December 28, 2020, a KNWA report on a Fayetteville Board of Health meeting suggested that minority populations would be the hardest to convince when it came to getting the Covid-vaccine. The news story specifically…
Understanding COVID-19 Data: Data Dashboards
Do you ever wonder where to go to get updated COVID-19 information in real-time? One place to start is with websites with “data dashboards” also called “data trackers.” With all the news coming out about…
A Showcase of Marshallese Cooking
Enrā Pantry debuted its first cooking video on YouTube in December and they are busy working on a second video. Melisa Laelan, founder of Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese, posted that Enrā Pantry will have pantry…
RMI Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa began their Covid-vaccine programs in mid-December. However, the Marshall Islands became the first independent nation in the Pacific to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccinations with just a few…
Successful Repatriation of Essential Workers to Majuro
Some very encouraging news has been coming out of the RMI over these past couple of months. The border cases identified at the end of October, one active infection of COVID-19, was cleared to re-enter…
Caleb Klipowicz
Kajin M̧ajeļ: https://chikinmelele.com/caleb-klipowicz-2/ Iakwe everyone! My name is Caleb Klipowicz and I am a student at the University of Iowa where I study anthropology and public health. Anthropologists like me are interested in learning about…
TRUE Northwest Arkansas Bolsters Local Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
TRUE Northwest Arkansas, a program through the Arkansas Community Foundation, is supporting the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts of 14 local organizations in Benton and Washington counties: BikeNWA, Circle of Life, Crystal Bridges Museum…
Joshua Manene
Joshua Manene was born in La Grande, Oregon in 1992 to his parents, Tolio and Ponciana Clanry. He grew up in Oregon until 2006, when his parents moved back to the Marshall Islands to become…
Rev. Jim Parrish, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville
Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved…
