Movement lawyer · Feminist climate strategist · Indo-Fijian, Pasifika
For nearly twenty years I have helped UN mandates, feminist funders and frontline movements across the Pacific, Asia and the Global South turn legal analysis into strategy, and strategy into resources that land where they are needed. Not where they are convenient.
Clients and partners include
OHCHR · UN Women · International Maritime Organization · Equality Fund · Fondation CHANEL · GAGGA · Mama Cash · Pacific Feminist Fund · Oxfam · DAWN · Plan International Australia · Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Three strands of one practice. Most of my work pulls on all three at once, because a legal argument without resourcing goes nowhere, and money without political analysis tends to reproduce the problem it was meant to solve.
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International human rights, climate, ocean and gender law, made usable by the people who need it. I draft submissions, briefs and interventions for UN mechanisms, and translate the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change into positions Pacific movements can act on.
Supported the UN Special Rapporteurs on the right to a healthy environment and the right to development on oceans, and on loss and damage.
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Moving money towards the groups usually written out of the call for proposals. I write scoping analyses and funding strategies, design decolonial grantmaking, and sit on advisory boards that decide where resources go.
Built the case behind AUD$4 million from Fondation CHANEL to seed the Feminist Climate Collective. Advised on the Equality Fund's CAD6.5 million Prepare, Respond and Care grant.
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Organisational and movement strategy, feminist participatory action research, and training that leaves people with the legal literacy to advocate on their own terms. Designed to hold plural solidarities together without flattening them.
Led FPAR mobilising grassroots women across 27 countries in Asia and the Pacific. Trained more than 2,000 activists, lawyers, judges, officials and journalists.
What the brief was, what I did, and what changed as a result.
Fondation CHANEL · Australia · 2024–2025
Eighteen months of scoping and mapping feminist funders and movements made the case for a feminist climate justice movement in Australia. The result was AUD$4 million in seed funding for the Feminist Climate Collective, whose advocacy platform and movement strategy I drafted, with leadership held by First Nations, Torres Strait Islander, Pasifika and women of colour.
Pacific Feminist Fund · 2025
A scoping analysis and funding strategy for feminist and climate movements in the Pacific's occupied territories: Guåhan, West Papua, Māʻohi Nui and Kanaky. Built around redistribution, reciprocity and trust in self-organising.
International Maritime Organization · 2025–2026
Developed the Pacific Gender-Responsive Maritime Governance Guidance and a regional advocacy framework, and led training for more than 30 Pacific Women in Maritime Associations.
Oxfam Pacific · 2026
On the Pacific-led advisory board for the Tipping Point Pacific Grant, I drafted the call for applications around Vā, the relational space connecting land, ocean and life, to reach small and emerging collectives that mainstream grant streams pass over.
Policy briefs, research and commentary on feminist climate justice, international law, militarisation and the Pacific.
All publications →Keynotes, moderation and training, from multilateral negotiations to community halls.
Moderated a dialogue between five women heads of government, while serving as global focal point for the Women & Gender Constituency.
International Women's Day keynote in Sydney alongside Jane Goodall, 2022.
Speaker and moderator on climate, COP31 and international law, and host of the “Have your Sei” side event for Pasifika women.
Featured climate leader in Tim Flannery's documentary, screened at NSW Parliament. Appearances on ABC Q&A and ABC News Breakfast.
Not services. The spaces I have helped build because they were missing.
Standing infrastructure connecting Australian climate organising to Pacific movements, on Pacific terms.
Diaspora organising that names Pacific governments' complicity and builds cross-regional solidarity.
Emeritus Council member; launched the Pacific chapter.
I am an Indo-Fijian lawyer who spent a decade in courtrooms and law firms before deciding the law was more useful in the hands of movements. I prosecuted for the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, worked at the Fiji Attorney-General's Chambers and in Magic Circle firms in London, then joined the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Pacific.
Since then I have led the climate justice programme at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, sat on the board of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, worked as Senior Pacific Strategist at Climate Action Network Australia, and researched with Edith Cowan University. I hold a Master of International Law from UNSW.
My practice is decolonial and feminist by method, not by branding. That means asking whose knowledge counts, who carries the risk, and who is left holding the consequences when the project ends.
I take on advisory retainers, defined projects and board or advisory roles with UN agencies, intergovernmental bodies, feminist and climate funders, legal teams and movement organisations. Remote across the Pacific, Asia and the Global South; in person from Sydney.
Typical engagements
Legal analysis, submissions and briefs
Funding scopes and grantmaking design
Organisational and movement strategy
Training, facilitation and FPAR
Keynotes and moderation