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Filipinos/Filipino Americans

Margarita Alcantara
Writer, Performance Artist, Community Activist
• As a Queer Pilipina Mestiza, her presentations explore multiple identities as well as community organizing
• Founder and editor of the 'zine Bamboo Girl
iLL-Literacy
Innovative Music, Performance and Education Collective
• Their performances, workshops and residencies explore creative means of addressing academic, political and cultural issues
• Comprised of African American and Asian American artists, they demonstrate the complex history that binds our history
Kiwi
Hip Hop Artist and Filipino Community Activist
• Formerly with the acclaimed Filipino hip hop group Native Guns, his latest CD is The Summer Exposure Mixtape
• Also facilitates Hip Hop workshops for young people
Ninotchka Rosca
Contemporary writer and Human Rights Activist
• Author of six books including State of War, Twice Blessed and The Fall of Marcos
• Founder and the first national chair of GABRIELA, the preeminent Filipina women's rights organization
Cathi Tactaquin
Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Hands That Shape the World: Women and Global Migration
- The Immigrant Rights Agenda, Racial Politics and Barack Obama