Shinobu M. Poll

Shinobu Mailo Poll (15 September 1938 - February 2009) was a Chuukese nurse and women's rights activist, who was President of Chuuk Women's Council (CWC) in the Federated States of Micronesia from 1997 to 2009.

Biography Poll was born on 15 September 1938 and attended Moen Elementary School, followed by Truk District Intermediate School from 1950 to 1953. She then went on to study at the Pacific Islands Central School from 1953 to 1956, followed by the Trust Territory School of Nursing, which she graduated from in 1958.

In addition to her career in nursing, Poll was a community leader, who was involved in the foundation of several women's organisations, including the Trukese American Women's Association in 1960 and the Young Women's Association in Moen in 1963. She was President of the CWC from 1997 until her death in 2009. She also opened a handicraft shop, at the CWC's office and a market stall - this meant that women had a supportive location to sell their produce. In her will, Poll donated land to the CWC, on which was built a new headquarters for the CWC, named the Shinobu M. Poll Memorial Center. Located in Nepukos, on Weno, additional funding for the centre was donated by the government of Japan.