Ariana Tibon-Kilma

Tibon-Kilma's mother is Marshallese politician Amenta Matthew and her maternal grandfather was Marshallese activist Nelson Anjain.^[1] Her family are survivors of the United States Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll programme, which studied the impact of radiation on human bodies.^[2][3] She lives in Majuro.^[4]

Tibon-Kilma was educated at the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) in Uliga, where she was a member of the Nuclear Club.^[1] She then studied Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.^[5]

Tibon-Kilma works as a nuclear justice activist who advocates for compensation and care for nuclear test survivors in the Marshall Islands.^[6][7] In 2017, Tibon-Kilma was appointed as chair of the Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission (NNC) by Nitijeļā (the legislature of the Marshall Islands).^[1] She became President of the NNC in 2023.^[8] In this role, Tibon-Kilma has spoken at the United Nations Human Rights Council,^{[9][10][11][12]} at the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women^[13] and at the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania conference at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[5][14]

Tibon-Kilma has also worked with the Marshall Islands public school system to develop a curriculum about the country's nuclear legacy and co-taught a Nuclear Issues in the Pacific course at her former college, the College of the Marshall Islands.^[5]