Grace Mera Molisa

Grace Mera Molisa was a ni-Vanuatu politician, poet, and women’s rights advocate. She campaigned for equal rights for women in politics and was the first woman from Vanuatu to achieve a university degree. She is regarded as a vanguard for Melanesian culture and a voice of the ni-Vanuatu, especially women. 

She founded Vanuatu Women in Politics, a group that helped women enter politics. She has published three volumes of poems which are described as biting social commentary on life in patriarchal, post-colonial Vanuatu.