Self-advocacy isn’t about being louder. For Pacific women, it’s about making our impact legible in systems that weren’t built for us. This playbook reframes advocacy as strategy, not ego - protecting energy, translating culture into value, and positioning yourself for long-term growth without shrinking who you are.

'Snow Lands on Top' argues that the true warning of The Hunger Games is not spectacle, but complicity. President Snow’s rise mirrors how fragile democracies erode gradually, not dramatically. In the Solomon Islands, patronage, resource politics, and clientelism create incentives that collectively undermine institutions. No one chooses tyranny outright - they simply choose self-protection until the system hardens around them.

There’s a certain weight that comes with being from the Pacific right now - a knowing that our blue continent, once dismissed as ‘small islands,’ is now the front line of global competition. Watching the recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) briefing — “Is America ceding ground to China in the Pacific?” , and then Emeritus Professor Hugh White’s Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) talk on Australia’s “Strategic Crisis,”; I can’t help but feel that the...