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Estrella Alamar - Chicago-born, FANHS Trustee Emerita, Estrella resides in Hyde Park on Chicago's southside. As
founding president of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago and the FAHSC Museum, in 2009, she was
involved with the Daniel Burnham Plan Centennial. Currently, the FAHSC hosts the Smithsonian Institution
Exhibition, SINGGALOT in Schaumburg, Illinois. She has attended every FANHS conference and made several
presentations.

Commander Benes Z. Aldana is a military trial judge in the U.S. Coast Guard. Benes is the immediate past president
of the Asian Bar Association of Washington and is on the ABA Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. Benes
received his J.D. from University of Washington School of Law in 1994 and his B.A. in Political Science (Honors
Program) in 1991 from Seattle University.

Aureen Almario has a M.A. from SFSU’s Asian American Studies program. She is a teacher for Pin@y Educational
Partnerships. She is also a resident artist and a volunteer staff member of the Production Team for Bindlestiff Studio.
She is a member of the Asian Law Caucus' undocumented student group; Asian Students Promoting Immigrant
Rights through Education (ASPIRE).

Ron Angeles. Current FACES President and former Conference Chair. Angeles was a trained community organizer
as a VISTA participant. He works as a District Coordinatorfor the Dept. of Neighborhoods for one of the most diverse
neighborhoods. Angeles brings his passion for inclusion, equal access and partnerships to FACES.

Angelica Bailon,born and raised in La Puente, California, earned a B.A. at Fordham University and M.A. in History
with an emphasis on American ethnic and religious history. She is an advancement officer at The Archer School for
Girls in Los Angeles specializing in media relations as well as the Chair of the Student and Faculty Diversity
Committee. Angelica is currently a doctoral student at Loyola Marymount University in the Educational Leadership for
Social Justice program.

Jeannie Barroga – Playwright, Screenwriter, Director, Producer: 2010 Dramatists Guild member; BANYAN, Best
Original Production; BUFFALO'ED, Gerbode/ Hewlett Foundations grant; WALLS, NEA; L.A. Maverick, Playwrights
Festival, 'Tino and Joey, CalArts, and Flourney Awards/nominations. Published: RITA'S RESOURCES, TALK-
STORY, EYE OF THE COCONUT. Directed: KOREAN BADASS, MONDAY GOLDEN SUN. Positions: AATC Artistic
Director; TheatreWorks’ literary manager; MAGNO RUBIO, consultant. www.jeanniesplays.com

k. ulanday barrett is a poet, performer, educator, and martial artist navigating life as a pin@y-amerikan trans/queer
in the U.S. with struggle, resistance, and laughter, who was recently named a Campus Pride 2009 Hot List artist.
Currently based in NY/NJ, with roots in Chicago, k’s work is the perfect mix of gritty city flex and Midwest open sky
grounded in homeland soil. k. has featured in colleges and stages nationally and internationally; For more online
swerve see: kaybarrett.net.

Maria Batayola, former FACES President. A longtime community activist and civil rights leader, Maria advocated for
cross cultural competency to create better understanding among ourselves as Filipino immigrants and Filipino
Americans, and have the City treat Filipinos with respect.

Vivian Bejarin is an Adjunct English Instructor at De Anza College, Cupertino CA. She earned a Bachelors degree in
Journalism and a Masters degree in Communication Studies from San Jose State University. Her focus was
Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Identity. Her Masters Project was on the impact of Hurricane Katrina
on Filipinos living in New Orleans. In the San Jose community, she is helping in a project to memorialize Filipino farm
workers.

Edwina Lapa Bergano, FANHS Hampton Roads Chapter Administrator, is the project coordinator of In Our Auntie’s
Words: The Filipino Spirit of Hampton Roads (2004) and In Our Uncles’ Words: We Fought For Freedom (2007).
Edwina earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle and served as a student intern for
Dorothy Cordova at the Demonstration Project for Asian Americans. In 2007, Edwina organized BizNet, a gathering
of local businesses and non-profit organizations.
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Dr. Patricia Brown, raised on a plantation as the daughter of a Hawaiian sakada and a local born Japanese woman,
earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Education and Psychology despite social and financial challenges. After
serving as an educator, guidance counselor, and psychologist in California and Hawai’i, she is now counseling
women, researching her cultural heritage, and involved in community service. A former President of the Filipino
American University Women of Hawaii, Dr. Brown is the current President of the Filipino American Historical Society
of Hawaii (FAHSOH).

Evangeline Canonizado Buell, accomplished writer, activist, and musician, is currently FANHS National Vice
President. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Asian Pacific Advisory Council for the Oakland Museum of California.
A former President of the City of Berkeley Art Commission, Vangie has received numerous community awards for her
activism. Recently recognized as one of “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the United States” by the Filipino
Women’s Network, she also received the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award for her book, Twenty Five Chickens and
a Pig for a Bride: Growing Up in a Filipino Immigrant Family. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2007/03/08/DDG0GOGEOH1.DTL

Titania Buchholdt is an experienced student, teacher, traveler, and performer who has worked with the Kalinga of the
northern Philippines and the Maguindanao of the southern Philippines. She is a senior member of the Palabuniyan
Kulintang Ensemble based in San Francisco, California http://kulintang.org

Ronald S. Buenaventura is a second-generation Pinoy with U.S. Navy roots in San Diego, has volunteered with
FANHS, works as a School Psychologist & Student Advisor for the Filipino Club at Stephen White Middle School
within Los Angeles Unified School District, and is currently a doctoral student at Pepperdine University.

Cheryl Teope Burk accidentally found herself at the FANHS-HR summer dialogue, SIGE, one year ago. Since then,
she has promoted intergenerational projects. Today she is president of the Young Filipino Professionals of Hampton
Roads. She recently joined the Asian Pacific American Heritage Organization and the Asian Association of Hampton
Roads. She is a Navy Exchange assistant buyer and serves on the education committee for the Admiral’s Council for
Diversity.

Ben Cabangun is a queer Pinoy son of immigrant parents hailing from the Inland Empire of Southern California.
HIV/AIDS activist, researcher, and educator, is one of a team of curriculum coordinators with Pin@y Educational
Partnerships. He is an alumnus of the graduate program in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State
University, and the Asian & Asian American Studies program at California State University, Long Beach.

Rita M. Cacas is a native Washingtonian and daughter of Clemente Cacas, one of the Depression-era Washington,
DC pioneers. A federal government employee for over 30 years, Cacas previously worked at the National Gallery of
Art and currently works at the U.S. National Archives. She is an award-winning photographer whose works have
been displayed around Washington, DC such as the Smithsonian Institution, the George Washington University,
Martin Luther King, ,Jr. Library, as well as around the country. An article about her 1993 Arts Grant project about the
Washington DC Filipino pioneers was featured in the Washington Post.

Holly Calica is a third generation Pilipina American, who teaches art to children in San Francisco, California. She is
also a Cultural Worker who studies music, dance and art across cultures. Her research on the indigenous arts and
culture of the Philippines has been central to her development as an educator, an artist, and one who maints
traditions that sustain and respect the earth.

Marya Castillano Bergstrom retired in 2006 after 31 years of City of Seattle government service. Originally hired to
provide staff support to the Seattle Women’s Commission; then served as Assistant/Acting Director of the City’s
Office for Women’s Rights. She helped found the Seattle’s award winning and internationally acclaimed Energy
Conservation Program, as Director of the Program. She co-founded the successful Sustainable Building Advisor
Program now currently being offered in 13 US cities. Mary’s one of the original members of the FANHS Poverty
Readers performing group.
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Eleonor G. Castillo served as president of the Filipino American Educators Association of California and San Diego
County. As the statewide leader for the Filipino Language Movement, she was instrumental to the historic passage of
Assembly Bill 420, a law preserving the teaching of Filipino Language and Culture classes in California K-12 public
schools.

Mark P. Cazem says, “Aloha!” Early years spent on the migrant farm circuit and SOMA in SF. Vietnam ear veteran
(USMC). Earned degrees: AA (CCSF); BA/MBA (SFSU) and JD (UC,Hastings). Law practice: Intern'l bus trans;
civil; immigration; real estate; and commerical. Teaching: Intern' bus law; bus law; intern'l marketing; and intern'l bus
- UC, Berkeley IDP, CSU, EB, SRJC, BCC, EVC, &Hosei U(Tokyo). Currently, involved in global bus trade
transactions.

Damian Cordova is a third generation Pinoy from Seattle, Washington. As a senior staffer for Congressman Jim
McDermott (D/WA), he has experienced a unique insider’s view during two presidential administrations of the
evolution of politics generated by the federal issue to overturn Public Law 79-391, the Rescission Act of 1946. He is
married to Judy Fallarme, and has two young children.

DEACON FRED CORDOVA, ordained by the Archdiocese of Seattle in 2003, co-founded the Filipino American
National Historical Society (FANHS) with his wife Dorothy in 1982. Both were awarded honorary doctorate degrees
from Seattle University. Among the founders of Seattle’s Filipino Youth Activities (FYA) in 1957, they have mentored
generations of youth. Now a great grandfather, journalist, professor, Smithsonian fellow, community activist, and
author of Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans (Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1982), Dr. Fred Cordova will moderate the
plenary panel on Alaskeros and present his own recent research.

Dr. Dorothy Laigo Cordova, FANHS founder and FANHS volunteer Executive Director, is a member of one of the
oldest Filipino American families in Seattle. Dorothy is mother of eight, grandmother of sixteen and great
grandmother of three. She also founded the Demonstration Project for Asian Americans (DPAA) and wrote the NEH
proposal that funded the nation-wide project, “Filipinos and Koreans: Forgotten Asian Americans.” Writer, researcher,
activist, professor, community organizer, and mentor to generations throughout the USA, she is a recipient of
numerous awards including recognition from the Philippine President, Filipinas magazine, and more.

Dr. Joan May Timtiman Cordova, FANHS National President also chairs the board of Stockton’s Filipino Oral
History Project, Inc. With a doctorate from Harvard University, she has taught for 30+ years while consulting,
publishing and giving national/international presentations. Recently awarded an Art & Change grant from Leeway
Foundation, her art/photography exhibit is now at the Philadelphia Folklore Project. She’s currently a consultant at
Scribe Video Center http://scribe.org and working with activists at Asian Americans United http://aaunited.org

Timoteo Cordova is a noted playwright, poet, musician, artist, and lifetime community activist. As the founding
artistic director of Sining KilUSAn Theatre Art Ensemble, Cordova has written, produced, and directed musical
dramas such as "Heart of the Son" that explores Filipinos' passion for freedom during the 1896 Philippine revolution;
“Across Oceans of Dreams" that chronicles pioneering Filipino immigrant experiences, and the contemporary
"Barkada Sindrome" and "Bamboo Split." His plays express an unparalleled range of themes rooted in both
Philippine and Filipino American experiences. Timoteo also co-authored the engaging Filipino American curriculum,
Pinoy Teach.

Lorial Crowder lived in Kings Fil-Am Orphanage in Olongapo City until she the Crowder family adopted her at age 5.
In the lifelong process of learning about her birth culture and of Filipinos in America, she co-founded the Filipino
Adoptees Network in 2005 and currently is Co-Director of the Filipino Heritage Camp in Colorado. She earned a
MSW and currently resides in New York City with her 3 year old son Noah and partner John.

Charles Daulo is currently a Case Manager and Counselor for Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), formerly
a Case Manager for West Bay, Multi-Service Center in San Francisco and is a recent graduate of the University of
San Francisco (2009). While at USF, Charles conducted Ethno-Tours of San Francisco’s rich Filipino-American
historical roots. His journey to becoming a professor has only begun and he is currently applying for his Masters of
Arts in Asian American Studies.
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Gem Daus teaches Filipino American Studies for the University of Maryland, Asian American Studies Program. His
courses emphasize history, identity and action, incorporating his 20 years of healthcare advocacy for minority
populations. Gem is also the executive director of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC).

Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual is a Bay Area transplant via Riverside and Long Beach, CA. He received his BA in
Liberal Studies from UCR in 2000, his MA in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University in 2004, and
irecently completed his doctorate at the University of San Francisco in the Organization and Leadership Program.
Rod serves as the Associate Director of Curriculum Development for the Pin@y Educational Partnerships.
http://pepsf.org/

Arlene S. Daus-Magbual, a Pinay born in East Los Angeles, is Associate Director for Pin@y Educational
Partnerships (PEP). She received her B.A. in Political Science from UC Riverside, and her M.A. in Asian American
Studies at San Francisco State University. Next fall she will pursue her Doctorate in Education at San Francisco State
University. With extensive experience in non-profit organizations, she currently resides in Daly City, CA with her
husband Roderick Daus-Magbual and their 3-month-old Pinay sweetheart Amianan.

Dr. Pio DeCano is a retired high school counselor who received his PhD from Washington State University and a BA
and MEd from the University of Washington. He is a charter member of the National Association for Asian Pacific
American Educators (NAAPAE) and served as its first president. He also sorted and slimed salmon, caught cans,
waited on tables, cased up and long shored as a tail-end “Alaskero” at canneries throughout Alaska.

Joseph A. Galura is the president of the FANHS Michigan Chapter and the co-author, with Emily Lawsin, of Filipino
American Women in Detroit: 1945-1955, Oral Histories from the Filipino American Oral History Project of Michigan.
His latest books are Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities and forthcoming
Tapestry: Filipinos in Michigan, 1900-1950, also with Emily Lawsin. At the University of Michigan, he is a lecturer and
director of Project Community.

Ben de Guzman is a non-profit consultant. As the National Coordinator for the National Alliance for Filipino Veterans
Equity (NAFVE), he ran the successful campaign to achieve military recognition of Filipino WWII veterans. He is Co-
Director of Programs for the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance and was most recently recognized as one
of 2009's Most Unsung Heroes by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress.

Cindy Domingo is currently Chief of Staff for a King County Councilmember. In 1974, Cindy joined the Seattle KDP
Chapter and worked at the KDP National Headquarters in Oakland. In 1981 her brother Silme Domingo and Gene
Viernes were murdered, and she returned to be National Coordinator for the Committee For Justice for Domingo and
Viernes.

Dr. Ligaya Domingo is an independent scholar and recent Ph.D. graduate of the Graduate School of Education at the
University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, “Building a Movement: Filipino American Union and Community
Organizing in Seattle in the 1970s,” focused upon the limits and possibilities of using two parts of civil society as
vehicles for social change. Ligaya is also an elementary school teacher and has worked for many years as a union
organizer.

Ivy Dulay is currently a Community Educator for Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA).A graduate of the
University of California San Diego, Ivy was a student leader in the Pilipino Students Saving Tagalog movement and
the first UCSD grad to earn a degree in Language Studies: Tagalog. After extensive Tagalog studies in the
Philippines, she is currently teaching a Filipino Language & Culture class at the Los Angeles School of Global
Studies.

Nestor Palugod Enriquez is a retired US Navy veteran turned Filipino American historian who does research on
early Filipino American experiences. By connecting Filipino-Americans to their past for over ten years through various
bulletin boards, magazine contributions, and his own website, www.filipinohome.com, his research has been cited in
various media. His interest in world history is part of his "romantic" ancestral claim that his great-great grandfather,
Enrique sailed with Magellan to become the first circumnavigator the world.
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Marina Espina inspired many historians with her groundbreaking research on Filipinos in Louisiana during the oral
history training sessions for the NEH project that led to the publication of Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans in
1982. A former FANHS National President, she chaired the FANHS 1988 National Conference in New Orleans. She
will be presenting her classic work to an Alaskan audience for the first time.

Larry Flores, department manager for the City of Seattle Department of Transportation, is a third-generation Filipino
American - born in New Orleans. He is the second son of Bening Salting Flores - who grew up in the Louisiana
bayous - and Severo Flores, retired US Navy.

Christine S. Flores was born and raised in the Philippines and studied Theology at the University of San Diego. After
she completed her studies at USD in 1993, she started teaching Tagalog at San Diego Community College and has
been there ever since. 858 538 6381 csflores@sbcglobal.net

Isabel Galura is a Charter Member of the FANHS Michigan Chapter and a member of the Filipino Women’s Club of
Detroit. A retired American Dietetics Association dietician, her life history is featured in the book Filipino American
Women in Detroit:1945-1955, Oral Histories from the Filipino American Oral History Project of Michigan.

Aurilee Gamboa. Current FACES officer. Aurilee is an upcoming technology professional with the City IT Department.
She is passionate about including the ideas and voices of members in FACES decision making process. She brought
high tech (e-surveys and e-voting) and high touch (happy hours and Tagalog language tables) approaches to
FACES.

Lee Garduque graduated from the Advanced Technology Center’s digital design program. During his last two years of
high school he served Salem’s Filipino American Cultural Society as historian and was on the executive board that
created the SIGE Symposium in 2009. Currently, Lee is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the
Cultural Liaison co-chair for Filipino Americans Coming Together.

Mariecris Gatlabayan grew up along the Pacific Northwest and now resides in Anchorage, Alaska. She received her
BA in psychology and English from the University of Washington, where she participated in the Pinoy Teach program
for two years. She received her MS in Archives Management and Library Science at Simmons College, Boston.
Currently she is an archivist at the Consortium Library’s Archives and Special Collections, University of Alaska
Anchorage, and a member of the Alaska Partnership Organization (APO) workgroup.

Jason Gavilan is a Ph. D candidate in History at the University of Michigan. His research and writing root in U.S.
empire, Philippine migration, and Filipino experience—within the historical and contemporary contexts of 20th century
U.S. militarism; and, in the recruitment and enlistment of Filipinos in the U.S. military.

Error: Reference source not found, one of the founders of Asian American Studies and the School (now College) of
Ethnic Studies at SFSU, Professor Gonzales began his career in education as a co-lecturer in Asian American
Studies in 1969. Since completing a BA in International Relations at SFSU and a Juris Doctorate from Hastings
College of Law, he has continuously taught, researched, written, filmed and served as a historical consultant to
various multimedia programs on Filipino American history, Asian Americans and American legal, political and social
processes, and Philippine/US relations. He’s a native of San Francisco where he resides with his wife, Barbara Linda
Palaby.

Gloria G. Gonzales is an adjunct professor of Asian American Studies and Multicultural Studies in Palomar College
in San Diego, CA. She has an MA degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego and is currently
pursuing PhD studies in Comparative Literature at the University of California in Riverside, CA. From FANHS San
Diego. 760 929 1504 excelsis@pacbell.net

Ramon C. ("Ray") Guimary is a retired Logistics and Transportation executive, who formerly worked for
CARNATION, OMARK Industries, N.W. Grain Growers and others. His career was distinguished by several awards,
college teaching, and U.S. listing in "Who's Who". Ray and his brother Don worked summers in Alaska salmon
canneries as teenagers in the 1940's to help pay for their education. Don, a journalism professor, later researched
and wrote a book on the history of Alaska salmon cannery labor---mostly Pinoy--- which Ray recently edited
and published.
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Dr. Roland Guyotte is University of Minnesota Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of
Minnesota, Morris. In 2007-2008 he served as Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean. His most
recent publications, co-authored with Barbara M. Posadas, include “Filipino Families in the Land of Lincoln: Immigrant
Incorporation in Springfield, Illinois since 1965,” in Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. Kraut, From Arrival to
Incorporation: Migrants to the U. S. in a Global Era (NYU, 2007), “Interracial Marriages and Transnational Families:
Chicago’s Filipinos in the Aftermath of World War II,” Journal of Amerian Ethnic History 25 (Winter-Spring 2006).

Dr. Estella Habal is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at San Jose State University. Her book, San
Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement (Temple U
Press, 2007) focuses on the intergenerational activism of the community in the late 1960s and 1970s. Aside from
teaching, she is working on a memorial project in the city of San Jose to recognize Filipino farm workers.

Dr. Patricia Espiritu Halagao is an Associate Professor of multicultural education and social studies in the College
of Education at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She designs, implements, and evaluates culturally responsive
curriculum and pedagogy for marginalized ethnic groups. Her research examines the educational experiences of
Filipino American students and is the co-founder of Pinoy Teach (www.pinoyteach.com) and recipient of 2006 & 2007
Smithsonian Institution grant to develop an online multimedia Filipino American curriculum (www.ijeepney.com ) She
received a federal grant to lead a Filipino American Studies Institute in Hawai’i.

Tala Ibabao is completing her Recovery of Indigenous Mind/Traditional Knowledge Ph.D. at the California Institute of
Integral Studies in San Francisco. She's also a daughter, mom, Spanish-bilingual teacher, and salsa singer in the
Bay. She was blessed with the opportunity to live in Sagada way back in the pre-cell phone days.

D.J. Imperial earned his stripes with FANHS-HR as part of Salem High School's FACS. He is a founding member of
the chapter youth group, Filipinos Americans Creating A Dynamic Environment (FACADE). In 2009, this
group helped with the planning and execution of SIGE Symposium in July and the Community Summit in December.
D.J. is a spoken word performer and guitarist pursuing his music career in Virginia Beach.

Melvin Jadulang holds a B.A. in Communications with a Minor in Agriculture from the University of Hawaii and is
currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University. Melvin’s experience
included facilitating startup grassroots organizations and held leadership roles in various organizations including the
Bayanihan Club at UH Hilo. As coordinator for the Sulong Aral program, Melvin aims to raise awareness about
Filipino culture on the Leeward CC Campus.

Luna M. Jamero, born and raised in Merced County (CA) and 6th of 8 children born to Ceferino and Apolonia Jamero
from Garcia-Hernandez, Bohol, PI. Parents owned a Filipino labor camp in Livingston, California. Graduated from
college in 1967 and moved to Stockton for nearly 30 years; currently in Livingston, CA. Charter President of FANHS
Central Valley (1998). Currently, semi-retired mother of Daniel Jess, and grandmother to Nicholas and Natalie
Jamero.

Peter Jamero is FANHS founding vice president and long time board member. Author of Growing Up Brown:
Memoirs of a Filipino American and The Filipino American Young Turks of Seattle, his most recent book is Vanishing
Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation (forthcoming, 2010). Retired, he lives in Atwater CA. Raised on a farm
labor camp in California, he achieved “Filipino American Firsts” as Washington State Director for Vocational
Rehabilitation, King County (WA); Department Director of Human Resources; San Francisco Executive Director for
Human Rights; Vice President for United Way of Seattle/King County, and Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation
Medicine at the University of Washington.

Patricia Justiniani-McReynolds has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles and an MA
degree in Art History from San Diego State University. She taught Art History at MiraCosta College in San Diego. As
an artist, she has worked in oils, acrylics, ceramics, bronze, and weaving. She published Almost Americans: A
Quest for Dignity (a memoir), Pacific Rim Folk Tales, and articles in the Dictionary of Arts and Arts of Asia magazine.
858 459 3017 pcmcrey@sbcglobal.net
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DJ Kuttin Kandi (also known as Candice Custodio) born and raised in Queens, New York is widely regarded as one
of the most accomplished DJ's in the world. She is a member of DJ team champions 5th Platoon, CoFounder and DJ
for the all female Hip-Hop group Anomolies, Cofounder of international known coalition R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop and
Cofounder of Hip Hop Independent entertainment group - Guerrilla Words. Djing for over 12 years, Kandi competed
in over 20 DJ competitions such as ITF and Vibe DJ Battles. She is the 1998 NY Source Magazine DJ Champion
and has been the only female DJ to make it to the DMC USA FINALs. She is also known as an activist, community
organizer, feminist, poet, writer, mentor, educator and Hip Hop Advocate. Kandi currently resides in Chula Vista,
California and works at the Women's Center at UC San Diego.

Olivia Gail Labalan Sawi is a graduate student in history at San Jose State University. After finishing her Master's
degree she hopes to pursue a PhD and continue educating the public, either in the classroom or in other avenues of
public history. She is currently focusing on labor and agricultural history, concentrating on Filipino Farm Labor in
California. She is involved in a community project to recognize the Filipino farm workers.

Emily Porcincula Lawsin, FANHS Trustee, helped charter the Los Angeles and Michigan Chapters. She co-
authored two books with Joseph Galura: Filipino Women in Detroit: 1945-1955 and Tapestry: Filipinos in Michigan,
1900-1950. A spoken word performance poet originally from "She-attle", Washington, for the last 15 years, she has
taught Oral History, Asian American, and Filipino American Studies in California and University of Michigan. She
traveled from Shanghai to be at this FANHS “hometown” national conference.

Mark Leo, an Igorot Filipino American born in Baguio, Philippines and transplanted to the United State via the U.S.
Navy in 1985, is currently at San Francisco State University to complete his M.A. in Asian American Studies. His
research critically examines the indigenous Igorot Filipino American identity. A self-identified Igorot, Mark is also
active in BIBAK (an acronym for the five major tribes in the cordilleras) Igorot organizations in San Diego and the
surrounding Bay Area.

Raymund L. Liongson, Ph.D. is assistant professor and coordinator of the Philippine Studies Program at Leeward
Community College, University of Hawai‘i. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Filipino
Community Center. He was among the 15 members of the Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission, and one of
the five Commissioners (the only Filipino) formed in 2009 to look into the enduring labor issue at the Pacific Beach
Hotel.

Evelyn Luluquisen is second generation, born and raised in Oakland, California. She has a background in Human
Resources and since completing the book, “Filipinos in the East Bay” wishes to document the on-going diaspora of
Filipino peoples around the world. Evelyn has served on the board of Filipinos for Affirmative Action, and performed in
“The Vagina Monologues” with Filipina Women’s Network and “The FOB Show” with Bindlestiff Studios.

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, third generation Pinay born and raised in Stockton, California, earned a Ph.D. from
Stanford University and M.A. from UCLA. She is an associate professor of history at San Francisco State University.
Her book Making Little Manila: Filipinas/os in Stockton, California, 1917-1972, will be published next year (Duke). She
is a co-author of Filipinos in Stockton (Arcadia, 2008), a co-founder of the Little Manila Foundation, and a FANHS
National Trustee.

Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor is an MFA candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University. Her
poetry chapbook Pause Mid-Flight was released in June 2010. Her story "Yellow is for Luck" appears in Growing Up
Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Brainard. She is also a performance storyteller, and her blog is wordbinder.blogspot.com

Jacquilin U. Magat, M.Ed., is a teacher, club coordinator, curriculum writer, workshop presenter and a community
advocate. Ms. Magat, a Filipino immigrant as a teenager, earned a B.A. from San Diego State University and an
M.A. in Education from Alliant International University. She is currently a doctoral student in Educational Leadership
and Management.

Juana Maria Mangaoang - Since joining her first activist organization in 1969 (the Black Student Union at Meany
Junior High School), Juana has been involved in the community in a wide variety of roles. She is currently writing
about her recent trip to the Philippines, where she met her brother for the first time.
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Christine R. Marasigan grew up in Kodiak, AK. She received her BA from Lewis and Clark College, her MA from
Western Kentucky University and attended UCLA’s Culture and Performance PhD program. She works as a
legislative staffer for an Alaskan Senator, splitting her time between Juneau and Anchorage. In addition, she is
involved with Alaska Filipino Community Organizations, and is a member of the Alaska Partnership Organization
(APO) workgroup.

Julia E. Markley is an attorney with the law firm Perkins Coie LLP. She enjoys helping clients resolve complex
business disputes in court. She is the founding president of the Oregon Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
Markley received her J.D. with high honors from the University of Washington School of Law in 1999 and her B.A. in
1995 from Stanford University. Markley lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

Mary Anne Matel graduated from the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Salem High School in 2009. During this
time, she helped rebuild the foundation for various community organizations. She is majoring in Kinetic Imaging at
Virginia Commonwealth University. There she serves as the 2010-2011 Filipino Americans Coming Together Culture
Night Co-Chair. She also serves the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue as National Director Proxy for
District 7.

Marco Mercado is an alumnus of Salem High School's Filipino American Cultural Society and Old Dominion
University. He inspires students at Independence Middle School in Virginia Beach and commands the mic at
underground events such as NYC's Sulu Series. Marco works with FANHS youth to promote family her/histories and
spoken word. He cooks a mean pinakbet with lots of ampalaya.

Terese Guinsatao Monberg a third-generation Pinay from Chicago who now lives in East Lansing, Michigan is a
member of FANHS Midwest and FANHS Michigan, and a board member of the Mid-Michigan Asian Pacific American
Association. An assistant professor of rhetoric & writing at Michigan State University, Her research interests include
Filipino American and Asian American rhetoric(s), community-based movements, and decolonial pedagogies.

Ron P. Muriera- Educator, nonprofit executive, grant writer, performing artist, community activist, advocate for
children and youth – for the last 20 years, Ron P. Muriera has integrated his diverse experiences and knowledge
towards serving communities in the Greater Bay Area, California and nationwide. Ron currently administrates the
FANHS Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Ph.D. (FANHS Metro New York Chapter President) is a professor, performer, and pinoy,
who received his doctorate in counseling psychology from Columbia University in New York. He is an assistant
professor of psychology and the deputy director of the forensic mental health counseling program at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice- City University of New York. He is the author of Filipino American Psychology: A
Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice and its sequel Filipino American Psychology: A Collection of
Personal Narratives.

Lloyd Nadal, MA is the program director of CANFit (Communities, Adolescents, Nutrition, and Fitness) in Berkeley,
CA. A native of the SF Bay Area and alumnus of the University of San Francisco, Lloyd has been working with
communities of color, particularly adolescents, for the past several years. Recently, he helped to initiate the PAPAYA
(Physical Activity and Pilipino American Youth Assessment) Project, which aims to address the lack of physical
activity and subsequent health disparities of Filipino American adolescents. A former physical trainer, he aims to
promote awareness of nutrition, diet, and physical activity, and the subsequent health issues that persist among the
Filipino American community.

Melissa Ann Nievera, a San Diego-raised Pinay, served as as an Ate/Mentor in Philippine-American Youth
Organization (PAYO-SD), and later taught high school and community college level Filipino American studies in San
Francisco’s Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP). With a commitment to community, Melissa obtained her B.A. in
Sociology at UCSD, her M.A. in Asian American Studies at SFSU, and is now working on her Ph.D. in Education at
the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Ray Obispo is a sociology and history teacher at Salem High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Since1995, Ray
sponsored the nationally recognized Filipino American Cultural Society (FACS) of Salem High. His teaching praxis
incorporates spoken word, dramatic monologues and theatrical productions as a catalyst for understanding both the
Asian American and Filipino American experience. A FANHS National Trustee, he also serves on the Virginia Asian
American Advisory Board.
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Dr. Anthony Ogilvie, currently the executive Dean of Continuing and Professional Education at Seattle Central
Community College, has over 37 years in public and private education as an administrator and teacher. He has
traveled to China, Russia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brazil conducting seminars and workshops on
distance learning. At Seattle Central Community College he developed two course focusing on Filipinos –
“Leadership issues in the Filipino Community” and “The Sociology of Filipinos in America.” With Dr. Dorothy L.
Cordova, he co-chaired the 1971 Far West Reunion, “A Quest for Emergence” in Seattle.

Mel Orpilla is a FANHS National Trustee and FANHS Vallejo Chapter president. He is also an Amang Red in the Tatak ng
Apat na Alon (Mark of the Four Waves) tattoo tribe. Mel is the author of Filipinos in Vallejo, (Arcadia, 2005). He has
published numerous writings and photographs. A practioner of Balintawak Arnis, he loves to travel for adventure. He has
degrees in Ethnic Studies and Journalism. He currently works as the Public Affairs Manager for a large hospital system in
Vallejo, CA and volunteers his time for many causes.

Anthony Pascua, M.Ed., has taught Filipino language and biology in San Diego, California. He obtained his
bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego. He earned his
master’s degree in education from Alliant International University. He is currently vice-president for the Filipino
American Educators Association of San Diego and advocates for Filipino Language classes in the U.S and globally.

Dr. Judy Patacsil is the President of FANHS San Diego Chapter and a FANHS National Trustee. She is a
Professor/Counselor at SD Miramar College and has a doctorate in Culture & Human Behavior. She is the co-author
of the forthcoming Filipinos in San Diego (Arcadia, 2010). Judy is a second generation Pinay born to immigrant
parents who were early pioneers in the Filipina/o American community. 619 388 7564 jpatacsi@sdccd.edu

Paul Z. Paular was born in Los Angeles in1932 and lived in Stockton. Worked two salmon fishing seasons, 1951,
1952, Ouzinkie Kodiak, Alaska . Paul earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in June 1959 from Oregon State
University. He retired from aerospace as manager, structural analysis B2 Bomber at Northrop/Grumman in 1995.

Mike Pedro has a M.A. in Asian American Studies from SFSU. He completed his B.A. at Cal Poly Pomona,
graduating with degrees in Behavioral Sciences and Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies. Mike was
introduced to the world of academia through his involvement as a McNair Scholar. He currently lives in San
Francisco.

Maria Luisa Penaranda is both an educator and artist. Born and raised in the Philippines, she earned a BA from San
Francisco State University. In addition to teaching at California State University, East Bay, she works on
commissioned paintings. Her artwork and drawings have been published and exhibited. As an educator, maintaining
and preserving the Filipino language is one of her constant goals.

Karen Mejia Pennrich was part of the FANHS’s project team who produced the documentary Remembering Our
Manongs—Sonoma County’s Filipino History, a film about Sonoma County’s pioneer Filipino immigrants. She is
Executive Producer of the Manongs’ Montage, a short video identifying most of the Manongs who settled in Sonoma
County.

Vic Pineda. A poet and former UW Educational Opportunities Program counselor, Pineda was part of the solution in
addressing educational discrimination. He then came to the City of Seattle as a human resources practitioner. With
Art Ceniza, former legislative assistant to Councilwoman Dolores Sibonga, they founded FACES to empower
Filipinos in City employment.

Dr. Barbara M. Posadas, Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, is the author of The Filipino Americans
(1999) and numerous articles on Filipino American history. She has served on various editorial boards, including
Amerasia and the Journal of American Ethnic History, on various award committees, as president of the Illinois State
Historical Society, and as chair of the OAH Committee on the Status of Minority History and Minority Historians. She
will serve as president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society in 2009-12. In April, she received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Her current research focuses on Filipinos in
Chicago before 1965 and on immigration policy and Asian American citizenship.
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Carmiliza Riculan is a 2010 graduate of Salem High School. She has been a dedicated member of the Filipino
American Cultural Society and served as president her senior year. Outside of FACS, she helped to organize several
projects such as the Sige Symposium and Community Summit with youth organizations. She will be attending
Virginia Tech in the fall.

Patricia Viloria Romero, native of Sonoma County, California, participated on FANHS’s oral history project that
focused on the lives of Sonoma County’s pioneer Filipino immigrants, including her dad. She was Project Co-Lead,
Co-Executive Producer, and primary narrator in the production of the documentary, Remembering Our Manongs—
Sonoma County’s Filipino History.

Fe Rowland is treasurer of the FANHS-Michigan Chapter, director of Paaralang Pilipino Language and Cultural
School, and a board member of the Philippine American Community Center of Michigan. Her experience in an
interracial marriage is described in the book Racial Sobriety: A Journey from Hurts to Healing by Rev. Dr. Clarence
Williams. She retired as a campus minister for the Archdiocese of Detroit at Wayne State University and has received
awards for her dedication to social justice.

Ruben Salazar,a Systems Engineer with PepsiCo, Inc., is an alumnus from the University of the Philippines. As soon
as he arrived to Chicago, his adopted home, he became actively involved in Filipino American community
life. He lives with his wife, Meryl and family in Chicago suburb, Darien, Illinois. He organized the Filipino American
program for Chicago Children Museum's Passport to the Philippines.

Veronica Baybay Salcedo is a Social Studies teacher at Bayside High School in Virginia Beach where she also
sponsors the Filipino American Cultural Association and the Gay Straight Alliance. She is the FANHS-HR president
and was an educational coordinator for the chapter’s two oral history books. She dreams of collaborating on a queer
pin@y oral history project in 2012.

Felicisima C. Serafica, Emerita Associate Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University, earned a PhD in
Psychology from Clark University, a Bachelor’s degree and an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania. A fellow of
the American Psychological Association, she was also awarded a Presidential Citation for her contributions to
multiculturalism in Psychology. Her recent research explored immigrant adaptation and history. She served as
Conference Coordinator for the 2009 FANHS Midwest Regional Biennial Conference.

Esther Simpson is currently working at the Seattle VA Health Care System . She was a member of the Chicago KDP
Chapter; led defense campaigns for Narciso and Perez and stop deportation of H-1 Visa Nurses. She moved to
Seattle to assist in KDP’s work in 1982 and has been involved in the Filipino Community.

Precious Singson, a native of Marikina, is currently a graduate student at UCLA’s History Department. She earned a
BA at California State University Northridge and MA at UCLA in 2007. Her research interests led her to the turbulent
decades of the 1970s-1980s in Philippine Seattle. Her dissertation will focus on themes in the community’s memory
-- martyrdom, heroic sacrifice, and pakikisama. In the meantime, she is happily distracted by her son, Lakan, age 1

Medy Cajulis Saqueton - a wife, mother, grandmother - has been an educator since she was nineteen years old. She
taught mathematics to both college and high school students in Manila, Chicago and Portland. She inspired future
high school mathematics teachers of the Philippines when she was a faculty member of the College of Education,
University of Santo Tomas.

Leny Strobel is Assoc Prof and Chair of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University, CA. She is the
editor of BABAYLAN: FILIPINOS AND THE CALL OF THE INDIGENOUS and other books on decolonization and
indigenization such as the now classic Coming Full Circle: The Decolonization of Post 1965 Filipinos. She is the
Project Director of the Center for Babaylan Studies.

Joey Tabaco (FANHS Metro New York Chapter Administrator) was born May 13th, 1949 in New York, NY, the eldest
of ten siblings. His parents, who came to the US in 1946, are from Tagbilaran City, Bohol. He is married to Jackie
Bleza Tabaco and has three children and four grandchildren. Joey has been a weather observer since 1968 when
Uncle Sam made him one in the USAF until he retired from the NY Air National Guard in 1990. He flew combat
support missions in Vietnam from 1971 to 1973 aboard WC-130 Hercules aircraft. He also worked for the National
Weather Service as a Hydrometeorological Technician from 1980 until he retired in 2004. Joey went to the State
University of New York at Albany from 1976 to 1979 while he worked for the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
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at SUNY Albany as a Technical Specialist. Since 2005, he has worked as a part time FAA contract weather observer
at Islip Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, NY where he has lived since 1989. Joey joined FANHS in
2004 when he first heard about it and attended the National Conference at St Louis, MO cold. At the 2006
Conference in Honolulu, he was appointed the administrator for the Metro NY Chapter. In 2009 he became the
Chapter Secretary.

Juanita Tamayo Lott was raised in San Francisco, but her adulthood has been spent in the Washington, D.C., area.
She is a retired federal senior demographer, policy analyst, and special assistant to the U.S. Census Bureau director.
She cofounded the first U.S. Filipino American Studies at San Francisco State in 1969 and the Filipino American
Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007. She is author of Asian Americans :From Racial
Category to Multiple Identities and Common Destiny: Filipino American Generations.

Leezel Tanglao is an online news producer at CBS2/KCAL 9 News. Leezel has been an active member of AAJA
since 2002. She has held several media internships including Tokyopop, KCET-28 “Life and Times Tonight,” The Salt
Lake Tribune, The Press- Enterprise and The Daily Breeze in Torrance. She graduated from Loyola Marymount
University with a bachelor’s degree in English and minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. She is currently pursuing
a masters degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA.

Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University,
received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. She is the founder and
director of Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a service and teaching pipeline focused on the marriage between
critical Filipina/o American Studies and critical pedagogy. Along with her professional accomplishments and
community service, she is happily married to her husband Valentino, who is also a teacher, and they have a six-year
old daughter named Mahalaya.

Charlene Tomas recently earned her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation, "Health
Education: Filipina American Teenage Mothers' Sex Education Experiences and Recommendations" utilizes teen
moms' lived experiences to inform health education policy and classroom practices. She has worked at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Pan Asian Community Services with a focus on HIV/ AIDS and
STDs. Charlene recently worked with Dr. David Satcher (16th US Surgeon General) at the Morehouse School of
Medicine.

Ryan Turgano - From Seattle, is a member of the Tatak ng Apat na Alon (Mark of the Four Waves) tattoo tribe with
the rank Anak. He is mixed Irish and Filipino. Born to a military family, he has lived in Guam, Philippines, Virginia,
and Maryland and now Washington. Loves to travel and learn in the process. Bases his philosophies around family
and through studying martial arts. Has worked in Telecommunications for the past 7yrs.

Rhodora Ursua, MPH is a co-founder of Kalusugan Coalition, Inc., a non-profit community-based

organization dedicated to improving the health of the Filipino American community in the NY/NJ area. At the NYU
Center for the Study of Asian American Health, she is also the Director of Project AsPIRE (Asian American
Partnerships in Research and Empowerment) She moved from California to New York 8 years ago and is an alumnus
of UCLA and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Marie S. Vallejo is currently a researcher living in Manila. She was with Intel Corporation in California for 24 years.
Past positions were in Internal Audit, Information Security, Finance Operations and Logistics Planning. In Hawaii,
she developed a program to teach computer and Internet skills to senior Filipinos. As a Board Member of the
American Historical Collection Foundation in the Philippines, she is helping spread awareness of the Collection’s
Bulletin.

Philippine born Velma Veloria, KDP organizer 1977-1986, served as the first Filipina American in the Washington
State Legislature from 1992 until 2004. Currently, she serves as the Senior Policy Advisor and Outreach Coordinator
for HomeSight, a full service, non-profit homeownership center serving Seattle, King County, Snohomish County, and
Tacoma.
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Art Villaruz, a second generation Filipino American served as National President of FANHS from 1998 to 2002 and
has continued to serve as National Trustee. In his initial confirmation of office in 1998 as National President, he was
sworn into office in the Philippines during our participation in the 100th anniversary of the Philippine Spanish American
War. Art has done numerous presentations centered on both his father, a pensionado and graduate of UC Berkeley
as well as a community leader in Stockton and San Jose, and his mother, who came to America in search of her
father, an officer of the Philippine Spanish American War. Since the inception of FANHS, Art has continually served
on panel presentations at every national conference. In addition to serving as National President, Art served as
president of Santa Clara FANHS and Central Valley FANHS. Art received his Master’s Degree in School
Administration from San Jose State College and has over 40 years of experience as an elementary teacher, school
principal, and supervisor of student teachers at the college level. Art’s music background was influenced by being
around his musically talented family where he acquired the ability to play by ear. Much of his musical interest is
influenced by the jazz era of the 40’s through the 60’s.

Primo Kim Villaruz is a second generation Filipino American, the son of a distinguished pensionado and graduate of
UC Berkeley who became the first Filipino chemical engineer and community leader in Stockton, California. Born in
Stockton, Primo was raised in San Jose where his family moved to and graduated from San Jose State University. At
the age of five he studied piano which later evolved into his passion of jazz. Primo was a teen sensation whose
mellifluous voice and elegant phrasing led to a big variety show at the Latin Quarter in New York City, where he was
discovered by talent scout Lou Walters, interviewer Barbara’s father. During his professional music career he has
headlined major concerts throughout the Seattle area and was chosen in 1997 to welcome His Royal Highness,
Prince Andrew at a gala Seattle performance. Primo has performed internationally and was one of the featured
musical artist invited to perform at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho. He was also special guest of Marvin
Hamlisch, playing with the Seattle Symphony in 2002. Primo’s latest CD, “Make It Right” was released this past
spring.

Alicia Viloria Watson is a novice filmmaker who is passionate about sharing untold stories. As Project Lead and
Senior Writer of Remembering Our Manongs--Sonoma County’s Filipino History, she is committed to preserving the
history. A FANHS Sonoma County member, Alicia resides in Pleasant Hill, California with her husband Warren.

Luanda Wesley is a multicultural teacher for 20 years in elementary education. A 2008 Fulbright-Hays Scholar to the
Philippines, her emphasis in education has been on each child’s whole being and the importance of seeing
themselves reflected in the curriculum, which was an impetus for her studying in the Philippines.

Jayson Winborn of Seattle is a member of the Tatak ng Apat na Alon (Mark of the Four Waves) tattoo tribe with the
rank of Amang Red. He is of mixed race heritage – Filipino and African American. Born in the Philippines, he left
before Mt. Pinatubo erupted in 1991. He lived in Guam, San Diego and now resides in Washington State. He spent
4 years of active service in the United State Marines and 4 years in the reserves. He has spent 10 years as a
Security Contractor specializing in Physical security and Law Enforcement.

Manila-born blues harmonica player and vocalist Carlos Zialcita has been part of the Bay Area blues and jazz scene
for three decades as a performer, promoter, educator, and former radio announcer. Zialcita's career began in the
early 70's as a founding member of the Chico David Blues Band, a popular bay area band that backed legendary
blues artists like T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, and Big Mama Thornton. Since those early days Zialcita has been
on numerous musical journeys with many of the blues, jazz, and R&B legends he has long respected and admired.
Zialcita continues to perform, tour, and record with several blues artists including Sonny Rhodes, Johnny Otis and
Afro-Filipina R&BN diva Sugar Pie DeSanto. Zialcita appears on DeSanto’s latest CD, Refined Sugar. Since 2006,
Zialcita has been a founding member of Little Brown Brother, a jazz fusion group that combines elements of jazz, latin
jazz, blues, R&B, and Filipino music into a sound that is uniquely their own. Their CD, Soul Shadows, is dedicated to
the Filipino American jazz and blues pioneers and has received radio airplay and rave reviews. Zialcita is founder and
executive director of the San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival, now in its third year.
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