About Us

Our Work

Samoan elders dancing (siva) in the Pasifika Wellness Center at PICA-WA.

Our Mission

To establish a cultural home, center community power, and further the wellness of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities in Washington.

Our Vision

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities thriving physically, socially, culturally, and spiritually.

Washington is home to the 2nd largest population of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders in the contiguous U.S.

Through intergenerational programs that address cultural and social determinants of health, while advocating for the everyday experiences of our communities at the systems-level, we are able to work closer to a thriving NH/PI community in Washington.

Our Values

Woven into all pieces of our collective work, these values help guide and hold us accountable to the communities we serve in our efforts to achieve our mission.

Va Tapuia (Samoan)

Sacred Relations
We are committed to establishing deep and accountable communities through building strong relations, networks, and coalitions between our communities from across all regions of Oceania.

Mana (Oceania)

Power
We acknowledge the spiritual and cultural power of NH/PI communities to determine their social and political futures in advancing justice locally, nationally, and globally.

Anemkwoj (Marshallese)

Liberation
We work towards the ultimate goal of liberation for our NH/PI people, where our communities are able to perpetuate our Oceanian traditions.

Vunilagi (Fijian)

Horizon Gazing
A key value of Navigators is to always gaze toward the horizon, dreaming of what our futures can be for our descendants. We work to usher in a future that is humane for those yet to come.

Aliliseoch (Chuukese)

Sacred Hospitality
We are committed to fostering an environment where our communities can feel love, safety, and dignity.

Kotahitanga (Maori)

Inclusive Collective
We are an expansive body and welcome all members of our community, including our queer and trans siblings. We are an intergenerational community that celebrates our elders and holds the highest value for our children.

Our Team

We are women-led, intergenerational, and one hundred percent of our staff and board identify as NH/PI and Indigenous. Our staff and board are diverse in age, ability, gender identity including our Samoan cultural third gender (fa’afafine) as well as sexuality, lived experience and citizenship status ranging from U.S. citizen to undocumented and COFA resident to U.S. National and refugee. Like our community, our staff and board also range in identifying as caregivers, formerly experiencing poverty and/or homelessness, displacement due to nuclear testing, immigrants, and survivors.
Meet Our Team
Pacific Islander Community Association (PICA) acknowledges that our organization and community work, live, and play on the unceded traditional lands of the Spokane, Chinook, Cowlitz, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, Duwamish, Chelan, Nisqually, Squaxin, Chehalis, Sauk-Suiattle, Stillaguamish, Tulalip, Puyallup, and the Steilacoom tribes. We honor with gratitude the land itself and its original caretakers
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is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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