Academic career
Chu-Fuluifaga is of Samoan,Chinese and Tahitian heritage. [1] [2] Her mother was a cleaner and her father did not attend school. [3] [1] Despite saying she struggled and 'felt invisible' at school,and a career counsellor suggesting she train as a secretary,Chu-Fuluifaga went on to complete a PhD titled Mentoring for Leadership in Pacific Education at Victoria University of Wellington in 2009. [4] [1] [3]
Chu-Fuluifaga joined the faculty of the School of Education at the university in 2003. [5] Between 2005 and 2020,she grew the Pacific education leadership cluster from an initial five students to more than 200,one of the largest cohorts of Pacific students in the country. [1] She established mentoring programmes in Humanities and Commerce at the university,and run cultural training programmes for professions including lawyers and midwives. Chu-Fuluifaga was the director of Victoria's Bachelor of Arts in Education from 2009 to 2011,and she is also a researcher at tertiary education support organisation Ako Aotearoa. [2] [6] [7] [3]
Chu-Fuluifaga volunteers at the Graeme Dingle Foundation,which promotes life skills and wellbeing in young people through New Zealand. [8]
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