Meet the 2023 Boards and Commissions Fellowship Mentors


 

Maria Quitugua

I am Chamorro,

Native Indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.

I am “Gilita” of Luta
means from the island of LUTA

A remote island in the middle of the sea

surrounded by the largest body of water in the world

the PACIFIC OCEAN!

I am part land and sea

It’s what makes me ME…ALL of ME!

the COMMUNITY
It is the culture, the ocean, the island, the air, the heaven above

It is our ancestors, our people

It is the language, the stories, the dance

The beautiful songs we sing

I am my mother’s daughter

I am my father’s daughter

I am the daughter of all before ME!

I am never truly just ME!

I am CHAMORRO

I am my family and my family is ME!

I AM THEIR LEGACY!