Kwentuhan
Our purpose is to create space for meaningful exchange of information (shared stories) via the pakikipagkwentuhan method with Filipino American student leaders and local community members related to their identity and experiences
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Ashley Jones
Art Director
Don Francis
Tech Lead
Alexa Young
Product Manager
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Robert Rose
Product Designer
Research Team
Hadley Rahrig
Hadley (she/her) is a Psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Healthy Minds where she engages in community-based participatory research to promote health and well-being equity. She started partnering with FilExcellence in 2023 to co-develop research centering Filipina/x/o perspectives on politics, identity, and well-being. She loves providing analytical support for kwentuhans, thinking up new approaches to share data with participants and elevate their stories.
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Sarah Amplo
Sarah (she/they) is a first-generation Filipina American from New York City. She is currently a PhD Student in Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sarah received a Master of Arts in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2024 and a Bachelor of Arts in 2023 from the University at Albany, SUNY.
As a queer Filipina scholar-activist, her academic and professional work is deeply personal as she explores the constructions of race, gender, and sexuality in the Filipinx American diaspora.
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Gabriela Sagun
Gabby (she/her) is a PhD student at Duke University in the Department of Political Science with a subfield specialization in Security, Peace and Conflict. My interests include gender-based violence in conflict, gender inequality, and Southeast Asia.
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Kyle Lorenzo
Kyle (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His research interests include holistic, culturally responsive approaches to promoting identity development and public health equity among underrepresented youth, especially among AANHPI communities. In his free time, he enjoys listening to and playing music, watching movies, playing racket sports, doing Filipino martial arts, and beating his peers at foosball.
Cai Barias
Cai (she/her) serves as the Education Director for AAPI New Jersey, and is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching interests include women’s political thought and student activism, as well as science, race, and empire in Asia and America. Cai has presented her research at various conferences including at Harvard University, Cornell University, and the Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Prior to joining AAPI NJ, Cai was a senior program and events coordinator at the Center for American Women and Politics. Cai earned a B.A. in history from Barnard College at Columbia University.
Where We Are Going
Each stop puts out another set of branches. The mark is only whole at 2030, and only if every year before it happens.
Session 1: Language, Community, Identity, and Belonging
Session 2: Resilience, Colonial History, and Family
Filipino-American
Historical Conference Panel
