Join us in San José all month for these exciting free and family-friendly events: Sept. 8-Nov. 30 Pinoytown Rising Exhibit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library October 3 FAHM Proclamation San José City Hall1PM-1:30PM October 7 Pinoytown Art Walk San…
Celebrating our 2023 Awareness in Action Cohort & 2022 Lola Scholarship Recipients We had a blast celebrating both the 2022 Lola Scholarship Fund recipients and the completion of our 8th Annual Awareness in Action Program also known as our Filipino…
After a clamorous legislative session, including organizing our 2023 FilAm Policy Symposium and Advocacy Day in Sacramento, our Coalition took a short break and returned last week for a mid-year inflection-reflection point. Last week, our statewide Coalition of FilAm nonprofits,…
In July, we concluded our year-long Cancer Survey in partnership with Stanford Cancer Institute to explore the attitudes and behaviors of Filipinos and Cancer with over 175 responses! Our Community Health Initiatives (CHI) Team has learned immensely from outreaching to…
We are thrilled to be apart of a momentous literary event! Join us as we celebrate the power of Filipino American storytelling at the grand book launch event for The Kuwento Book: An Anthology of Filipino Stories + Poems and…
Join LEAD Filipino in our mission to empower communities and encourage civic engagement. Local elections hold immense significance, and it’s crucial for everyone to participate in shaping the future of their neighborhoods and communities. Our focus on this summer’s civic engagement activities,…
About Bahay Bahay! Home of the Kreatives is a community-made environment, where local FilAm,AAPI, BIPOC, Queer, and Trans creatives are invited in to help shape what a safe, healing, and sharing space looks and feels like in the heart of…
We are so excited to introduce our 2023 Bahay! Creative Cohort! Bahay! Home of the Kreatives is a community-made environment where local Filipinx/a/o American (FilAm), Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), Queer, and…
Our Founder & Executive Director, Dr. Angelica “Gel” Cortez recently sat down with the amazing folks @krystletugadi and @itsdustindom of @mesearchpodcast to discuss the history and implications of the Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action and specifically the nuances, dynamics, and contours of the Affirmative Action…
Statement from LEAD Filipino on the Supreme Court’s Harvard, University of North Carolina Affirmative Action Decision June 29, 2023 Only a few days following the one-year mark of the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade and continuous maelstrom of anti-LGBTQ…