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When it comes about Filipino identity and culture has so much than just where you came from or what language you speak. If you ask me when I first started with the podcast, I was first taken back by all the different cultures and language but as I continued with this journey, it comes to the land-based identity. If you want to hear more of Jonah's story, listen to the podcast

AJ Clifforde Alcover (1st generation) Filipino-Cebuano who immigrated from Digos City in the Philippines. He is a former graduate and alumni of Brown University. He is currently on the pre-med track on his way to go for Medical School. Shoutout to Kaeo Studios (@kaeostudios) in Waipahu Plaza for providing a space for us to do the podcast in person!

Marnelli Joy B. Ulep is the Program Development Manager for the Business Administration Division at UH West Oahu. She holds a BBA in Marketing and International Business and a MEd in Higher Education Administration, both from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. For many years, she was involved with community organizations like NaFFAA and groups that empower Filipino/a youth, lik

Fourth generation Filipino-Kama'aina Settler in the Kingdom of Hawai'i, I introduced to you, Tiffany Nohea Kasoga (she/her/hers). Through the season of her life she calls this, "motherhood" and the journey in re-discovering her culture again especially since growing up she did not have any close ties that helped her uproot her own cultural upbringing or the way sh

Description: Demiliza Sagaral Saramosing is an educator, scholar, and teaching artist of Bisayan descent with genealogies rooted in the seas shared between the Visayas and Mindanao. She is the descendant of Sakada great grandparents and of immigrant Bisayan parents. Demiliza’s poetry, scholarship, and activism draws from her experiences being born and raised in occupied Hawai’

1.5 Filipino immigrant from Iloilo and Bacolod City to Los Angeles. We have Chef Ria Dolly Barobas coming to you live here in Hawai’i. Chef Ria has family lineage of our Sakadas. For those who may unfamiliar of what and who are Sakadas, Sakadas were migrant workers in and from the Philippines specially for this segment, Sakadas who moved from Philippines to Hawai’i between the

Growing up (in Hawaiʻi) like some of us, have experienced this shame behind trying to look like your "FOB" or Fresh of the Boat. Was this because our history wasnʻt represented in history books which forces us to assimilate to that typical "white" culture. The importance of knowing our own history in order for us to know ourselves plays a huge role in our identity. For our latest

Ashley Marie is a second generation Ilokana Filipino American. Roots in Ilocos region. Ashley is someone who aspires to break cultural stigma.

Kasamas Rise Up, Podcast Host meets Carlo Farinas, a second generation Filipino American born and raised in the island of Oʻahu as the only child. Carlo is someone with great aspirations who continues to seek his Filipino heritage and roots. A timeline of his grandparents lineage: 1969 My great-grandpa on my mom's side Grandpa Ikong immigrated to HI to work on the plantatio

Kasamas Rise Up, Podcast Host meets Erin Enriques, Third-generation Filipino-American. She is currently a fourth year student studying international relations and environmental science. Erin is a great granddaughter of Vicente “Inting” Eligio, a sakada from the Philippines In this podcast narrative episode we not only reflect with Erin what it means to be a Filipina but we talk