Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard (1946 – 26 May 2024) was an American Samoan academic, writer, poet, and environmentalist.
[1][2] Sinavaiana-Gabbard was born in Utulei village, Tutuila, American Samoa, in 1946.
[4] Her PhD thesis was on Traditional Comic Theater in Samoa: A Holographic View.
[5] She taught creative writing as a faculty of the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa,[4][6] from 1997 until her retirement in 2016.
[7][8] In August 2020 she was named by USA Today on its list of influential women from U.S.