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When it comes about Filipino identity and culture has so much than just where you came from or what language you speak. If you ask me when I first started with the podcast, I was first taken back by all the different cultures and language but as I continued with this journey, it comes to the land-based identity.
If you want to hear more of Jonah's story, listen to the podcast and follow his small business at @nanea.designs
AJ Clifforde Alcover (1st generation) Filipino-Cebuano who immigrated from Digos City in the Philippines. He is a former graduate and alumni of Brown University.
Shoutout to Kaeo Studios (@kaeostudios) in Waipahu Plaza for providing a space for us to do the podcast in person!
Marnelli Joy B. Ulep is the Program Development Manager for the Business Administration Division at UH West Oahu. She holds a BBA in Marketing and International Business and a MEd in Higher Education Administration, both from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
For many years, she was involved with community organizations like NaFFAA and groups that empower Filipino/a youth, like the Sariling Gawa Youth Council and Miss Oahu Filipina Scholarship Pageant. She currently is an member of Advisory Boards for local high school academies.
Marnelli is also a wife, mother to two, and daughter to immigrant parents.
Fourth generation Filipino-Kama'aina Settler in the Kingdom of Hawai'i, I introduced to you, Tiffany Nohea Kasoga (she/her/hers). Through the season of her life she calls this, "motherhood" and the journey in re-discovering her culture again especially since growing up she did not have any close ties that helped her uproot her own cultural upbringing or the way she was brought up varied through her genealogy.
Key terms you should know:
Ashley Marie is a second generation Ilokana Filipino American. Roots in Ilocos region. Ashley is someone who aspires to break cultural stigma.
Kasamas Rise Up, Podcast Host meets Carlo Farinas, a second generation Filipino American born and raised in the island of Oʻahu as the only child.
Carlo is someone with great aspirations who continues to seek his Filipino heritage and roots.
A timeline of his grandparents lineage:
1969
My great-grandpa on my mom's side Grandpa Ikong immigrated to HI to work on the plantation and was recruited by his brother Bernard who came by boat from PH after WWII
1979
My great-grandma followed afterwards to also work at the dole plantation
1986
My grandpa Ipe and grandma Resura immigrated to work on the dole plantation, along with their children (my uncles) Sherwin and Ruben
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The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.