Ariana Tibon-Kilma

Ariana Tibon-Kilma is a Marshallese nuclear justice activist and educator who advocates for compensation and care for nuclear test survivors in the Marshall Islands.

Biography

Tibon-Kilma's mother is Marshallese politician Amenta Matthew and her maternal grandfather was Marshallese activist Nelson Anjain.[1] Her family are survivors of the United States Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll programme, which studied the impact of radiation on human bodies.[2][3] She lives in Majuro.[4]

Tibon-Kilma was educated at the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) in Uliga, where she was a member of the Nuclear Club.[1] She then studied Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.[5]

Tibon-Kilma works as a nuclear justice activist who advocates for compensation and care for nuclear test survivors in the Marshall Islands.[6][7] In 2017, Tibon-Kilma was appointed as chair of the Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission (NNC) by Nitijeļā (the legislature of the Marshall Islands).[1] She became President of the NNC in 2023.[8] In this role, Tibon-Kilma has spoken at the United Nations Human Rights Council,[9][10][11][12] at the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women[13] and at the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania conference at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.[5][14]

Tibon-Kilma has also worked with the Marshall Islands public school system to develop a curriculum about the country's nuclear legacy and co-taught a Nuclear Issues in the Pacific course at her former college, the College of the Marshall Islands.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Niedenthal, Jack (February 29, 2024). "'I want our people to experience justice'". Pactimes. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  2. ^ "Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy". Pacific Islands News Association (PINA). March 4, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  3. ^ "The long road to nuclear justice for the Marshallese people". Facingsouth.org. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  4. ^ "Nuclear Waste Scholar Series". Hanford Challenge. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "Speaker bios". Nuclear Connections. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  6. ^ Gunga, Theckla (October 28, 2024). "Marshall Islands fights for nuclear justice while also facing impacts of climate change". ABC Pacific. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  7. ^ "The Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Pacific: Marshall Islands". Toward A Nuclear Free World. January 12, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  8. ^ Maclellan, Nic (August 28, 2024). "Marshall Islands wants Forum support on nuclear legacies and human rights". Islands Business. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  9. ^ "Meet 6 Marshallese women activists who are changing the world". Greenpeace International. August 15, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  10. ^ "RMI's 6 women activists". The Marshall Islands Journal. May 22, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  11. ^ "De VN-Mensenrechtenraad onderzoekt de gevolgen van de nucleaire erfenis op de Marshalleilanden europahoy.new". The Belgium Times (in French). October 5, 2024. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  12. ^ "'Lessons of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands are lessons for the world' - UNOHCHR". RNZ. October 7, 2024. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  13. ^ Rika, Netani (July 26, 2024). "70 years on from tests, Marshallese women still fight for nuclear justice". Evening Report. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  14. ^ Lewis, Lydia (November 25, 2022). "My children will continue to fight and protect our islands says Pacific activist". RNZ. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
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