Posts Tagged Filipino issues

By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Marienne Cuison

Marienne Cuison, known to friends as YenYen, is the Chair of Anakbayan Silicon Valley. Anakbayan (translated as “children of the nation”)  is a comprehensive national democratic youth organization based in the Philippines that has chapters all over the world. It fights for social and economic justice for Filipino youth in the Philippines and abroad and is part of the wider national democratic struggle in the Philippines.

Anakbayan Silicon Valley focuses on Filipino youth in the San Jose region of California. ABSV’s work includes putting on workshops all around Silicon Valley and the Stanford area and running political campaigns that affect youth and students in the region.

And now, without further ado, the Feministing Five, with Marienne Cuison.

Anna Sterling: What is the ...

Marienne Cuison, known to friends as YenYen, is the Chair of Anakbayan Silicon Valley. Anakbayan (translated as “children of the nation”)  is a comprehensive national democratic youth organization based in the Philippines that has chapters all ...
By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Rose Lyn Castro

Rose Lyn Castro is the Project Director for S.P.E.A.R. (Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention) at the University of California, Los Angeles. After attending four years at UCLA as an undergraduate and doing two years of Teach for America, she got hired back to the same organization where she started doing campus organizing. Samahang Pilipino is the main Filipino student group at UCLA and S.P.E.A.R. is the retention part of that organization.

Filipinos are notoriously underrepresented in higher education, constantly getting lumped into “Asian and Pacific Islander” statistics, therefore minimizing the specific struggles our community faces. S.P.E.A.R. seeks to solve that by offering free, peer counseling services for all Filipino students on campus along with a variety of other academic services. ...

Rose Lyn Castro is the Project Director for S.P.E.A.R. (Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention) at the University of California, Los Angeles. After attending four years at UCLA as an undergraduate and doing two years of Teach ...