Brianna Fruean

Who is Brianna Fruean?

Brianna Fruean is a Samoan environmental activist and Year 11 student at Robert Louis Stevenson School in Apia, Samoa.

She is the second eldest daughter of Raymond and Pauline Fruean. The 15 year-old passionate environmental advocate has been doing community-based work for three years. In 2009 she represented Samoa at the UNEP Tunza conference in Daejeon Korea and then again in 2010 in Nagoya Japan. She helped organize the planting of 350 trees on behalf of 350.org initiative. In 2011 she organized yet another environmental awareness activity on behalf of Moving Planet Samoa. A walk which attracted more than 100 people in spreading awareness on climate change in Samoa and the world.

PACMAS partnered with SPREP to send three Pacific Island journalists which included Brianna to report on the world’s biggest ever sustainable development gathering, Rio+20