Spotlighting Mona Pasquil (U.S. FWN100™ '07)
Imagine living in a Tiny House. Dreaming Big with Vina Lustado's (GLOBAL FWN100™ '15)
Many of you have asked for a group tour of Vina's Tiny House. Now it's available! Take advantage of this rare opportunity on Sunday Feb. 28th. Spend a day (or the weekend) in beautiful Ojai and do something unique. It may just inspire you to live tiny.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dellie Punla (U.S. FWN100™ '11) and Cathy Campbell (Global FWN100™ '15)
Dellie Punla
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Delarch Inc.
Pinole, California
Fil-Am s/hero in the U.S.: California Chief Justice Tani Cantil Sakauye. She is the first Filipina-American woman Chief Justice and the second women to serve as the State's Chief Justice. An inspiration to many more Filipina women.
Proudest Professional Achievement: Having established residential care facilities in Sacramento, San Francisco and Turlock, California and also having established self-storage facilities in the South Lake Tahoe, Red Bluff and Sacramento.
Five-year goal: To continue my work and develop policy guidelines for my companies and to be able to mentor deserving young Filipinas and help our community at large.
Cathy Valle Campbell
Senior Global Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Microsoft
San Bruno, California, USA
Cathy Campbell received the Global FWN100™ Award in 2015 while she was the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Charles Schwab.
What's the best part of being a Filipina woman leader? Leading through strengths and having parents who instilled in me the values of perseverance and responsibility, which has guided me throughout my personal and professional life.
What do you think is the biggest challenge that faces the next generation of Filipina women? Leaning in earlier in their careers.
If you had super powers, what would you do? Build infrastructure to help families/communities benefit from economic sustainability.
ASK A FILIPINA: #23 DISRUPT Leadership Tip from Janet Mendoza Stickmon (Global FWN100™ '13)
Cultivate the knowledge and skills that will allow you to be an expert in your field. This expertise can be one vital source of confidence. People trust you when you are competent and are more likely to continue seeking your expertise.
- Janet Mendoza Stickmon, Professor of Humanities at Napa Valley College, Global FWN100™ '13
#FilipinaDisrupter
BOOK REVIEW Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Ocampo
Questions of identity are integral to young Filipino-Americans struggling to assert and find their voice in the 21st century. Books like Anthony Ocampo’s The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race and E.J.R. David’s Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino-American Postcolonial Psychology demonstrate a profound shift to centralize the narrative around the Filipino-American experience as we face the population growth of our community in the U.S.
Why We Should Remember EDSA: A History of the Philippine Political Protest
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the People Power Revolution. More than a defiant show of unity—markedly, against a totalitarian rule that had time and again proven that it would readily use brute force against any and all dissenters—People Power was a reclaiming of liberties long denied. Essay from GovPh
