Terisa Tinei Siagatonu is a Samoan spoken word poet, arts educator, and community organizer.

[6] Siagatonu graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2011 with a Bachelor's Degree in community studies and a minor in education.

Her work as a Kundiman Fellow and 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree, was published in Poetry Magazine and was featured on Button Poetry, CNN, NBCNews, NPR, Huffington Post, KQED, Everyday Feminism, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Upworthy.

She spoke at the Obama White House and to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France.

She stated that the most memorable moment in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award in 2012.