Salote Soqo, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Salote Soqo is a Senior Partnership Officer for Climate Justice and Crisis Response at UUSC, where she leads and manages a human rights portfolio focused on climate change issues affecting frontline communities, with special emphasis on the issue of climate-forced displacement.

Before joining UUSC, Soqo worked as a regional program coordinator in water equity and climate justice for The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW). She was also the climate and carbon management fellow with the Carbon Cycle Institute (CCI); prior to that, she worked as an environmental scientist and EIA consultant in Fiji. Soqo attained her undergraduate degrees from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, and the University of the South Pacific, in Fiji. She also holds a master’s degree in environmental management from the University of San Francisco.