ASK A FILIPINA: #14 DISRUPT Leadership Tip from Artist Lenore R.S. Lim (US FWN100™ '09)
Do not be afraid to delegate work to others. Delegate even if you know you can do the job better and more efficiently. By getting more people involved, you will be getting more people to take ownership of the work at hand. That can only be beneficial in team-building, training of new leaders, and the accomplishment of objectives.
- Lenore R.S. Lim, Artist
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Member Spotlight on Pinay Authors M. Evelina Galang (U.S. FWN100™ '07, Global FWN100™ '14) and Vangie Buell (U.S. FWN100™ '07)
Photo credit: M. Evelina Galang
M. Evelina Galang is the author of HER WILD AMERICAN SELF (Coffee House Press, ’96); the novel ONE TRIBE (New Issues Press, ’06); and ANGEL DE LA LUNA AND THE 5TH GLORIOUS MYSTERY (Coffee House Press 2013). She has edited the anthology, SCREAMING MONKEYS: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press, ‘03). She is currently writing LOLAS’ HOUSE: WOMEN LIVING WITH WAR, stories of surviving Filipina WWII “Comfort Women” and is at work on a new novel, BEAUTIFUL SORROW, BEAUTIFUL SKY. Galang teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami, is core faculty for VONA/Voices: Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation and has been named one of the 100 most influential Filipinas in the United States by Filipina Women’s Network.
Galang is the recipient of numerous awards, among them, the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights, the 2004 AWP Prize in the Novel and the 2007 Global Filipino Award in Literature for ONE TRIBE.
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Vangie Buell is a living historical gem: She's the granddaughter of a Buffalo Soldier—the nickname given by American Indians in the 19th century to black American soldiers. Even rarer: Her grandfather Ernest Stokes was one of the 6,000 Buffalo Soldiers sent to the Philippines to fight during the Spanish-American War during the 1890s. He was one of the few who stayed, married a Filipina (Buell's grandmother) and had children.
In her memoir "Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride: Growing Up in a Filipino Immigrant Family" (T'Boli Publishing, 2006), Buell recounts her grandfather's experience, and her own, as one of the few Filipinos growing up in West Oakland during the 1930s and '40s.
She remembers seeing "No Filipinos or dogs allowed" signs posted at restaurants and having to wear a button that said "I am a loyal Filipino" during World War II, because even though she didn't look Japanese, she was still Asian -- and vulnerable to harassment. " —Michelle Devera Louie, SF Chronicle
A Filipino-American activist, Vangie was born in San Pedro, California, grew up in West Oakland and devoted her life to social justice, human dignity, multicultural understanding and equality.
New Studies on ADHD and Smoking Cessation by Dr. Lirio Covey (Global FWN100™ '13)
Dr. Lirio Covey (US Global100 2013), professor of clinical psychology in Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry and former director of the Smoking Cessation Clinic at Columbia University Medical Center recently published new research on the relationship between ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and smoking cessation.
It Can Wait: Pledge to Keep Your Eyes on the Road, Not on Your Phone.
Pledge to keep your eyes on the road, not on your phone.
Take the pledge and pass it on in September!
One glance down at your phone can change everything. AT&T recently released research that found that seven in 10 people engage in smartphone activities while driving. As part of the expansion of It Can Wait to include more smartphone distractions, AT&T released new videos that show the potentially deadly consequence of even glancing at your phone while driving.
FWN is proud to support AT&T’s It Can Wait campaign!
Title II's Negative Effects on Minority Populations and Small Businesses
Recent Pew research shows that Asian Americans are enthusiastic users of the Internet and rely on broadband more so than other groups. When it comes to broadband adoption, 97 percent of English-speaking Asian Americans use the Internet compared to 78 percent of blacks, 81 percent of Hispanics, and 85 percent of Whites. Embracing policies like Title II will only lead to the deterioration of a resource that has become indispensable to so many people.
The Internet is an essential tool especially for those who live in remote areas where educational and professional opportunities may not be as widely available as in other parts of the country. Broadband is an important resource for people in rural areas to excel through online education and career development programs. When overbearing regulations threaten access to Internet innovations, those who rely on that access the most also stand to lose the most.
News story from AsianJournal
Women in Sports: 17 Year Old Pinay Mayumi Pacheco Drives with a Force for Liverpool FC
There is a young Filipina making waves in the Football Association’s Women’s Super League, the highest league of women’s football in England, and she is 17-year-old Mayumi “Maz” Pacheco.
The young defender has already represented England in the Women’s Under-16s and Under-17s levels. She was also called up for the England Under-19s team, but due to her first team commitment, she has to miss the camps and was instead told by the coach to be physically and mentally prepared for next year’s Under 19s competition.
News story courtesy of Interaksyon
Filipina-American Journalist Cielo Buenaventura at the New York Times
For Filipina-American journalist Cielo Buenaventura, getting into The New York Times and now holding the title of staff editor for the Culture section, was a combination of “audacious dreaming and dumb luck.”
In 1988 while on a scholarship at Ohio State University, one of her professors, a former Times editor, suggested that she try to apply to the paper after completing her master’s degree in public-affairs reporting and acquiring experience from small and medium-size papers . She said to herself, “Wow, the NYT was like Mount Everest, the mountain I’ll never be able to climb.” But he planted the idea in her head.
The Albay-born Cielo is one of two Filipinos at The Times newsroom. The other is restaurant critic Ligaya Mishan, whose mother is a Filipino immigrant.
“I learned on the job,” Cielo shared during a June 26 Kapihan forum organized by the Fil-Am Press Club of New York, where she was the guest speaker. “I didn’t have the Harvard, Yale and Ivy League credentials that other people had. But I found that The Times is a collegial place.”
News story courtesy of TheFilAm.net