Just as it is the case for many first-generation children in America, growing up here wasn't easy for me. It felt like nothing about my life was the same as it was for my peers in school. As a ...

October was National Filipino History Month, yet as a Filipina-American, this was the first year I had ever heard about it. Connecting to my Filipino heritage has always been something I struggled ...

Meals have long been a way to bring Filipinos together. As a first-generation Filipina American, I belong to a community shaped by fellow children of immigrant families attempting to assimilate into ...

The only thing I knew about the Philippines, prior to my Pinoy education, was Manny Pacquiao. And just like Pacquiao, my Pinoy education smacked me right in the face with blistering speed and from ...