Filipino American History Month: SOMA Pilipinas Heritage District
The SOMA Pilipinas Heritage District is a celebration of love, pride and generations of Filipino people power in San Francisco. Why a heritage District? Tune in and discover a history of resilience, courage and determination to preserve its future.
Hosted by Miguel Bustos, Senior Director, GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice
Our panelist included:
Jeantelle Laberinto- Organizer, Researcher and Writer
Jeantelle is a Filipina community organizer, researcher, and writer– born, raised, and currently residing in San Francisco. Jeantelle is deeply committed to building power with communities to cultivate self-determination and challenge inequitable systems that perpetuate disinvestment, displacement, and cultural erasure. She currently works as a Community Organizer and Staff Writer at [people. power. media], where she helps lead the Race & Equity in all Planning Coalition, a coalition of nearly 40 grassroots organizations throughout San Francisco fighting for racial and social equity in city planning. Prior to her role at [people. power. media], Jeantelle served as a consultant for SOMA Pilipinas, leading the extensive community engagement, research, and development of a strategic report in partnership with the City to outline strategies for place-based cultural and community stabilization.
Angelica Cabande- Organizer
Born in the Philippines and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight, Angelica Cabande has been an organizer for over 22 years combining art and organizing. She has supported the development of SF immigrant residents to become engaged in issues of social justice, equity, and community planning; and has educated, organized and mobilized residents in local and national issues. She started with SOMCAN in 2004 as a Community Organizer and became SOMCAN’s Organizational Director in 2010.
Erina C Alejo- Artist, Cultural Worker
Erina C Alejo is an artist and cultural worker. Their timekeeping work, through their lens as a San Francisco third-generation renter, sustains long-term collaborative relationships with micro communities– including families, tenants, and service workers– to center and respond to care, community action, and cultural preservation. A History of Renting (clamshell press and Katalog Projects, 2020 and 2022) is their first book. Generous support for Alejo’s work includes the Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Southern Exposure, API Cultural Center, This Will Take Time, Filipino American International Book Festival, and Balay Kreative, where Alejo was its inaugural grantee. Their work is acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Erina lives with family in the Excelsior district.
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Ambient Corporate by WinnieTheMoog
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6188-ambient-corporate
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist website: https://linktr.ee/taigasoundprod
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