I received the link to a presentation I had given at Porterville College on October 7, 2016, for PC’s Cultural, Historical Awareness Program (C.H.A.P.). The theme of my presentation was called, “Coming Home: Finding My Filipino-American Roots.” You can view it on the CCC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/xNQ16dnwb_o or click here.
48-hour whirlwind East Coast weekend: the Boston Book Festival and the Boston Filipino-American Book Club
In mid-September, Grace Talusan, Fulbright Scholar, English professor at Tufts University in Boston, and winner of the 2017 New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction by Restless Books, contacted me to let me know that the Boston Filipino-American Club (BFAB) was going to be reading my novel, A Village in the Fields, for the month of October. […]
3rd annual Larry Itliong Day and Filipino-American History Month
October 25th marked the 104th birthday of the late Larry Itliong. In October 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill that would give the Filipino-American labor leader statewide recognition with the annual day honoring his contributions to the state’s farmworkers’ labor movement. California State Assemblyperson Rob Bonta, the first and thus far only Filipino-American […]
Riding in the El Cerrito Centennial parade
My town of El Cerrito, Calif., where I’ve lived since 1996, is celebrating its centennial this year. One of the major events for the celebration was the Showcase Parade, which featured 59 groups or distinguished individuals. I was invited to participate as a local award-winning writer. But the biggest honor was sharing the red convertible […]
El Cerrito Centennial Parade
This coming Saturday, September 16th, I’ll be in the El Cerrito Centennial parade, riding in a convertible – red, no less – with former El Cerrito resident and author Gail Tsukiyama (Women of the Silk, The Samurai’s Garden, Night of Many Dreams, The Language of Threads, Dreaming Water, and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms). I’m […]
Short story in Hair Trigger 2.0
An old story of mine, “We are thinking of you,” was recently published by Hair Trigger 2.0, the online magazine within Columbia College Chicago’s Creative Writing Department. Hair Trigger 2.0 is “dedicated to publishing works that are reflective of the diversity of contemporary fiction.” This issue was published in May 2017. The story link was […]
Talking about the Filipino American experience at UC Davis
The University of California at Davis is my alma mater, and while I was an English major, I was one class shy of having a minor in Asian American Studies. So I was very excited to have the opportunity to do a talk for Professor Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s Asian American Studies class 150: the Filipino […]
Celebrating Cesar Chavez Day, University of CA, Office of the President
On Wednesday, March 29th, I was the guest speaker at a lunchtime event sponsored by the Latino Staff Association/Asian Pacific Islander Association affinity groups at the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP). The event, entitled, “When Mexicans and Filipinos Join Together: The Farmworker Movement and Unity in the Making,” was in celebration of Cesar […]
Porterville College newsletter article
Porterville College’s November newsletter featured a short article on my October visit to my alma mater. You can check it out here.
Alumni Journal Q&A in Syracuse University Magazine
I received my fall/winter 2016, vol. 33, number 3 issue of the Syracuse University Magazine in the mail today. In late summer I was interviewed by associate editor Amy Speach for a Q&A in the Alumni Journal section of the magazine. The Q&A is in the current issue. The online version can be […]