APLN Pacific Islands Creative Competition 2022 Winner Microstate Category for her work “See you soon, lagune”. “Bedi Racule hails from the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, with links to Hawaii and Fiji. She will be graduating with her postgraduate degree in Development Studies from the University of the South Pacific where she was serving as president of MISA4thePacific – a grassroots youth nuclear justice organization. Bedi is now engaged as the Ecumenical Enabler for Climate Justice at the Pacific Conference of Churches and steering committee member of the Nuclear Truth Project. She recently attended the First Meeting of State Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, Austria where she shared the Pacific’s nuclear legacy and call for justice and peace. During her free time, Bedi loves spending time with her husband and two children.”