Participation
My story is more than my picture | Sunday 11:00 AM | Town Hall
A Journey Home | Sunday 13:40 PM | Main Stage
Speaker
Benetick Maddison
Benetick Kabua Maddison is the Assistant Director and Project Specialist for Youth, Climate, and Nuclear Issues at Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), a nonprofit in Arkansas, where the highest concentration of Marshallese reside in the continental United States. Born in Majuro Atoll, Maddison migrated to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with his family at the age of six. His work at MEI includes raising educational attainment levels of Marshallese residents and he regularly speaks about the ongoing consequences of the nuclear legacy and climate change on his homelands at conferences and events in the US and internationally. Benetick is also a student at Arkansas State University pursuing a degree in political science.