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29/07/2022

Hi all,

Check out our mini-Tagalog lessons via the link in the bio! They were made by our ever so talented Kirstie Garcia.

Maybe these lessons will be something new, serve as a quick reminder, or a nice refresher :) Whatever the case, we hope it inspires a new generation of Tagalog speakers.

28/07/2022

Hi all,

Wanted to show off our new look by the wonderful APRiL WERLE. We are so in love with it and might turn it into a pair of shoes 😉

15/07/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 is the Director of the Air National Guard Chaplain Corps at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. She joined HIANG in 2002 and commissioned as a First Lieutenant. She was born and raised in the Philippines. She completed her Master of Divinity in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary, Baguio, Philippines, and her Educational Specialist in Professional Counseling from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She received licenses in both Marriage & Family Therapy and in Professional Counselor from Virginia. She served numerous times as Command Chaplain for Special Operations Command, Pacific. She also served as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Command Chaplain, Air Mobility Command. She was deployed to support the Joint Special Operations Task Force, OEF- Philippines. She is married for 30 years to Jeff and they have a 24 year old daughter, Shekina, and a 14 year old Dachshund named Jaxon.

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Air National Guard Chaplaincy

Air National Guard

14/07/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚

I am a first generation Filipina American residing in San Francisco, Bay Area. My passion is in hospitality, food & wine. Being a certified sommelier by the CMS (Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas), I’ve worked in wine positions across the city. Currently, I am the general manager & wine director of the bustling, Good Good Culture Club of the Mission District. I’ve curated a program centered around my own values which are to highlight female-led operations, low intervention, business transparency & environmentally cognizant producers. While wine knowledge is a passion of mine, my true expertise is in creating human connection, building equitable systems within an archaic industry & how to effectively lead a dynamic, growth driven team.

And washing it all down with a nice, cold glass of Beaujolais.

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13/07/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐆𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐳𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧 (siya/they/them) is a second generation Filipina/-American, 200-Hour Yoga Teacher, and Returned United States Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand 130) with a MA in Art Therapy & Counseling, BA in Psychology, and AAs in Sociology, Art, and Child Development education. They served as a Program Coordinator with the American Art Therapy Association, Secretary with Pennsylvania Association of Specialists in Group Work, and Member with the Association of Filipino Scientists in America. They hope to create a creative meditation center that honors Asian/-American artmaking, spirituality, and yoga practices.

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12/07/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: Janet Susan Rodriguez Nepales@Janet Susan Rodriguez Nepales is an award-winning journalist who is the first Filipina member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) that votes on and presents the annual Golden Globe awards. Based in Los Angeles, Nepales is a University of Santo Tomas (UST) Journalism cm laude graduate who was recognized by the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) as one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the U.S.” in 2012 and one of the “100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the World” in 2013. She is a co-author of the first FWN book entitled “DISRUPT: Filipina Women: Proud. Loud. Leading Without A Doubt.” She published her first coffee table book “FASHION. Filipino. Hollywood. The World” which is a first of its kind book since it highlights Filipino fashion designers and their creations for the Hollywood red carpet and around the world. The paperback edition of the book is now available on https://www.amazon.com/FASHION-Filipino-Hollywood-Rodriguez-Nepales/dp/B09WCDKRC7

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11/07/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 is a Los Angeles & Las Vegas based actor. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a degree in Stage and Screen Acting. While in Las Vegas, she also studied at Vegas Theatre Hub in their improv, clown, and solo show programs. She was involved in several shows, such as Cirque Du Soleil & Nevada Ballet Theatre's “Laberiñto” and Nevada Conservatory Theatre's “subUrbia,” having also done several staged shows in various theaters in Las Vegas.

After graduating, she moved to New York City, where she studied at Upright Citizen's Brigade, The People's Improv Theatre, and HB Studios - all while doing stand-up and various sketch and improv comedy shows several nights a week in the city. Her solo show about her grandmother with Dementia, “Lessons With Lola,” premiered in New York. She also did several television shows, web-series, and staged plays all over the city.

Ashley now resides in Los Angeles and has studied with Upright Citizens Brigade and Giovanni Ortega at East West Players - an Asian American theatre organization where she developed another solo show - “From Inday to Asawa,” and more. She is currently one of the co-facilitators for Filipinx Actors Barkada. She continues to do all kinds of comedy, create short films, and more.

Ashley also is part of the Las Vegas indie rock duo Take The Skies - playing drums, singing, and rhythm guitar (her fiance is their music producer) and works for Tremendous Communications, a marketing and PR agency dedicated to celebrating Asian Americans in entertainment.

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30/06/2022

🎇We are so excited to share the news of our latest release with you today! 🎇

The mission continues 😊

29/06/2022

Who is it Wednesday? 🧐

27/06/2022

Happy Monday!

Our next release date is official and we are so excited to share it with everyone 🎇

Also, we will have a few new things to share in addition to our new writer lineup. So make sure to check us out on Thursday, June 30th 😉

Talk soon,
Jen

10/06/2022

🎥 Went to the movies for the first time in 2 years 🎥
I watched a double feature of the OG followed by the new
I love 🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖so this was AMAZING!

I remember as a kid being both scared and excited anytime I got to watch . Still my favorite movie.

Anyway, HAPPY FRIDAY everyone and don't forget your .I def won't!

Also, hi , can I be your sidekick in your next dino movie 😃

08/06/2022

Who is it Wednesday? 🧐

✨Hi all, we are back after a little self-care and life happenings.✨ Enjoy 😊

10/05/2022

✨Happy Monday!✨

I've been thinking a lot about how to make time and space for doing the things I love. What has worked the best for me are the specific time stamps I put for everyday activities.

On the topic of time ... this was a lovely find 🧡:
LEUPP
https://philstarlife.com/self/712536-she-slays-riane-garfin-watchmaking

07/04/2022

✨ How to keep YOUR routines no matter what! ✨

I've dealt with my fair share of life rollercoasters, with some being a bit scary and others not so much. This is how I have kept my routines solid:

🌊 Layout the pre-steps to get you to that routine, so you do not have an excuse to miss it. Ex: clothes for the gym, notebook, and pen for writing, cleaned dishes for cooking
🕰 No matter how fast or slow you complete your routine make sure you finish it when you normally would. Ex: washing your face at night or making a smoothie for breakfast
🎇 Cheer for yourself when you have completed it! This is a big moment b/c at this time you are not on auto-pilot and things do not come easy. Do your happy dance and tell your dog🐕/🐈/🌱 all about it.

06/04/2022

Tahoooo!

I miss all the street vendors from when I lived in The Philippines. They rode around on makeshift bikes, wagons, shouldered long sticks with buckets on either end, a square backpack cooler ... I think you get my point. But I will never forget the men shouting Balut at 5am. Maybe someone will turn it into a ringtone one day.

01/04/2022

Nurse Unseen Documentary

As a previous frontline responder, I came across this trailer and had to hold back tears. Although I was not a nurse, I was testing patients in congregate settings. What makes me also very eager about this film is that I have been learning more and more about my heritage, and this is a topic I am eager to dive headfirst into.

Salamat po!

31/03/2022

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30/03/2022

Jeepneys!

When I lived in The Philippines, taking the Jeepney seemed like the ultra assimilation thing I could do. Riders sometimes sat side by side sharing knee sweat, and the more daring riders hung on the metal poles outside the vehicle.

I would pass my money along for the driver to get, which I thought was an easy way to save time, unlike American buses. The most fun part for me was how I decided to get off. Would I say anything or just knock on the metal bar with my keys?

11/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐚

Susie Quesada is a 3rd generation owner and President of Ramar Foods International. As the #1 Trusted Filipino Food Company, Ramar Foods manufactures authentic high quality tropical ice cream, lumpia and sausages that brings the Flavor of the Philippines to supermarkets and restaurants. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Filipina Women’s Network supporting their mission for a Filipina leader in all industries. Susie holds a BA in Multicultural Literature and Education from UC Berkeley and is a Harvard Business School alumni from the Owner/President Management Program (OPM51). Susie spends her free time reading, hiking and traveling with her husband. They reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ramar Foods Corporate

10/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐨

Janice Lao is an internationally multi-awarded environmental scientist and economist working with businesses so they can be a force for good for the world. At 30, she developed the initial mathematical and economic modeling that was the basis for international aviation’s carbon-neutral growth strategy. She also originated and led some of the “first in the industry” sustainable financial deals. For over 20 years, her work has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s most influential sustainability leaders, Fortune Magazine and others, often as the only Asian, and one of the youngest, in their lists. She graduated from the University of Oxford under a full academic scholarship. She just recently co-launched her first book about climate change “Sparky & Benny’s Big Home Mystery” with her young daughter, Esther.

09/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞

Elaine Alvite has been an advocate for students for 30 years as an educator at all levels of education from preschool to college. She holds a Master of Science degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Cal State Hayward and a Bachelor of Science degree from UC Berkeley. As a mother of 4 she understands the different struggles students may have in school and knows that every student can succeed with the right support.

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08/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐃𝐫. 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧

Ruth Uy Asmundson is the Ambassador to the City of Davis International Sister Cities (Ukraine, El Salvador, Japan, China, South Korea and the Philippines). She is a former Davis mayor, the first Asian mayor of the City of Davis.
She was elected to the Davis City Council in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. As the top vote-getter in her first try and also in her re-election, she became mayor of Davis twice, one of only few mayors elected on consecutive terms. She had previously served for ten years as a trustee on the Davis Board of Education, also as a top vote-getter. In addition, she also served as Special Assistant to the Vice Provost of UC Davis University Outreach and International Programs for several years.
Ruth is a native of Isabela, Philippines. With a Fulbright scholarship, she obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry in 1972 from UC Davis and her M.S. in Chemistry from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. Chemistry from Adamson University in Manila.
While raising six children, Ruth was very active in many school and community organizations both in the US and in the Philippines and awarded many honors, including 1989 Davis’ Citizen of the Year, Philippine Presidential “Pamana ng Pilipino” award in 2006 from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and one of Filipina Women’s Network “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S.” in 2007, again as one of the “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World” in 2014. She was also a 2010 CA&ES (College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences) Award of Distinction recipient at the UC Davis 22nd Annual College Celebration.
She was married to the late Vigfus Asmundson, a lawyer and former Mayor of the City of Davis making Davis history for Ruth and her husband as the first husband-wife mayors of Davis.

07/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐃𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐁. 𝐑𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐳-𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚

Delia B. Rodriguez-Amaya is Emeritus Professor of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Emeritus Researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Advancement (CNPq). She was President of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology and a member of the Governing Council and Scientific Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST). She has been a member of the Editorial Boards of prominent scientific journals. A world-renowned researcher in Food Analysis and Food Chemistry, she is the author of 276 scientific publications (books, chapters, review and research papers), cited more than 14,600 times in the international scientific literature. She presented 285 research papers in conferences of 28 countries, delivered more than 250 invited lectures at conferences and universities in more than 30 countries, and gave short intensive courses for researchers and professors in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She was Coordinator of the Brazilian Ministry of Education’s Commission for Graduate Studies in FST, member of CNPq’s Advisory Committee on FST, and member of advisory committees of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. She served as an expert to several FAO-WHO consultations and as scientific adviser/collaborator of international foundations and projects. At UNICAMP, she was thesis adviser of 24 Master and 24 Doctoral students. She was Chairman of the Department of Food Science, General Coordinator of the Graduate Programs and Academic Commission of the Faculty of Food Engineering, and coordinator of research projects financed by Brazilian and international foundations. She received numerous awards, including the Presidential Award Pamana ng Pilipino, East-West Center Distinguished Alumni Award (Hawaii), the University of Campinas Zeferino Vaz Recognition Award for excellence in teaching and research three times, the Brazilian Society of Food Science and Technology’s Andre Tosello Award (the Society’s highest award), the Philippine Association of Food Technologists’ 50th Anniversary Recognition Award, and the 2021 IUFoST Lifetime Achievement Award. She holds a B.S. in Food Technology, Araneta University (Magna Cum Laude); M.S. in Food Science, University of Hawaii (East-West Center grantee and recipient of the EWC Professional Award for High Academic Achievement); and Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry, University of California–Davis (Board of Regents’ Graduate Intern fellow). She is in the lists of the 100 Most Influential Filipino Women in the World (2014) and of the 100,000 Most Influential Scientists of the World (2020).

04/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬

Remedios Aileen De Mucha Flores is a Registered Nurse working in cancer care. She competed in the figure division of bodybuilding, earning national qualification. Remedios enjoys reading, bike riding, and growing indoor plants. She currently lives in the Bay Area with her hombre, daughter, son, two dogs, a tortoise, six snakes, four chickens and hella fish.

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03/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐨

Virginia Mayo is a Kyndryl Distinguished Engineer, Executive Technical Specialist and The Open Group™ Distinguished Technical Specialist. She is a globally recognized technical expert for her outstanding history of leadership in enterprise infrastructure automation, security, and resiliency. A native of the IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) business, she powered innovation that transformed IBM's security and compliance solutions to standardize the GTS service, converging on a best-of-breed architecture and strategy. This led to her appointment as a Distinguished Engineer in 2020 becoming the first ever Filipino-American technical executive in IBM/Kyndryl corporate history. As Kyndryl customers strengthen their business continuity, Virginia provides technical leadership in Security & Resiliency Global Practice to ensure secure and compliant systems are built to protect clients' business with resilient and flexible solutions. Virginia holds a dual Bachelor of Science Degrees in Computer Engineering and Information Technology and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. As a recognition of her groundbreaking career achievements, Virginia was awarded the prestigious ©TOFA Award (The Outstanding Filipino in America) at Carnegie Hall in October 2021.

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02/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐨

Venessa Manzano is a nonprofit expert, professional fundraiser, entrepreneur, educator, philanthropist, and mentor. At present, she is a Director of Development, Corporate and Foundation Relations at Columbia University Medical Center's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2008, she founded and is the School Director of The Filipino School of New York & New Jersey which promotes the learning of Filipino language and arts, and the understanding of Filipino culture, values and tradition to students of all ages. Venessa studied physical therapy at Northeastern University and received her MPH at Boston University's School of Public Health and MS in nonprofit management from Columbia University. She lives in northern NJ with her husband and three kids.

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01/03/2022

Featured Filipina Writer: 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐨

Lissa Prudencio is the founder of Wealth for Women of Color, which provides personal finance education and services to help women revolutionize their relationships with money. She straddles both a corporate life with 10+ years at Google, and an entrepreneurial side running multiple businesses and initiatives. A lifelong learner, she is currently enrolled in a financial planning program to supplement her expertise in personal finance. When she’s not working, Lissa is playing basketball or hanging out with her 2 dogs in Los Angeles, California.

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Nurse Unseen Documentary As a previous frontline responder, I came across this trailer and had to hold back tears. Although I was not a nurse, I was testing patients in congregate settings. What makes me also very eager about this film is that I have been learning more and more about my heritage, and this is a topic I am eager to dive headfirst into. Salamat po!

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Dr. Amefil (Amy) Agbayani is the kind of activist I strive to become one day! She fights for social justice, women's rights, and equal opportunity for higher education amongst minority students. Dr. Agbayani is a former chair of the Hawai’i Civil Rights Commission, a member of Patsy T.Mink PAC and The Legal Clinic for immigrant justice Hawai’i, and currently serves as Emeritus Assistant Vice Chancellor for student diversity and equity, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. There are likely many more accolades missing from the above list, but just imagine how much more can be accomplished the more you get involved. I believe even a small group of passionate and dedicated organizers can do so much good in the world.

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