'ia ora! On our 2nd episode, we hear from Ryan's wife/partner: Vairea, who came from French Polynesia to the United States in 2017. Vairea is founder of the 1st Tahitian Cultural Center in the U.S.A and also helped to create the Tahitian American Families and Couples Group on Facebook. In this episode she shares a little about what life has been like moving away from home and arriving in the U.S. as an immigrant with no family present.

Vairea Tupana Samn / San Francisco, CA.