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On Saturday, February 23rd, nearly all of our organizing team rolled up to San Jose State University and presented at Akbayan’s Raising Awareness Amongst Pilipinos Conference on multiple issues relating to Fil Am experiences, leadership, and civic engagement to high…

The days are counting down till our Fly Pinays Pre-Session on Saturday, March 2nd at San Jose State University, where we’ll welcome our newest group of mentors and mentees for our 3rd Annual Fly Pinays Program. Till then, we’re still…

Those very familiar with our organization know that our bread and butter, our founding program, the initiative that gave us life in early 2016, was our Filipino Studies/Civic Engagement Course called the Awareness in Action Program (AAP). An eight-week, free and…

Our Annual Fly Pinays program is a p-r-o-d-u-c-t-i-o-n that begins nearly eight months in advance, and entirely the end-result of volunteer leadership, capacity, and vision.  Primarily run and owned by college students and young adults from the South Bay Area,…

1.29.19 Announcement:  We’re so excited to share that Row of 106.1 KMEL will be joining our list of guest speakers at our 3rd Annual Fly Pinays Leadership Summit!  Row will address our crowd of ~150 women and girls on Saturday, March…

When we retell the story and the journey of each year’s Fly Pinays, we stretch our memories of the laughter, bonds, and last-minute-panic-scramble-runs-to-the-store-to-grab-a-forgotten-item back several months. The community planning, that’s characterized best by student and young adult leadership, starts the…

Last Friday, Jan. 11th, several members of our Education and Civic Engagement teams spent the day at UC Davis, with our partners at the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, in a deep discussion and training for our first [Filipino/a Legislative…

January 8, 2019 We had the privilege of presenting a tactical and interactive workshop on Filipino Martial Arts: Eskrima to the students and members of Barkada at Santa Clara University! Led and developed by one of our organizers, Kevin Suarez,…

We’re proud to announce the leaders of our upcoming 3rd Annual Fly Pinays Leadership Summit – be on the lookout for this year’s directors because we’ll be cooking up big things the next several months! 2019 Fly Pinays Directors Marissa…