Kasamahan Co

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 sm...

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. He is currently on the pre-med track on his way to go for Medical School. 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 Gaw...

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...

Description:  Demiliza Sagaral Saramosing is an educator, scholar, and teaching artist of Bisayan descent with genealogies rooted in the seas shared between the Visayas and Mindanao. She is the descendant of Sakada great grandparents and of immigrant Bisayan parents. Demiliza’s poetry, scholarship, and activism draws from her experiences being born and raised in occupied Hawai’i and growing up in...

1.5 Filipino immigrant from Iloilo and Bacolod City to Los Angeles. We have Chef Ria Dolly Barobas coming to you live here in Hawai’i. Chef Ria has family lineage of our Sakadas. For those who may unfamiliar of what and who are Sakadas, Sakadas were migrant workers in and from the Philippines specially for this segment, Sakadas who moved from Philippines to Hawai’i between the years of 1906-1946 t...

Growing up (in Hawaiʻi) like some of us, have experienced this shame behind trying to look like your "FOB" or Fresh of the Boat. Was this because our history wasnʻt represented in history books which forces us to assimilate to that typical "white" culture. The importance of knowing our own history in order for us to know ourselves plays a huge role in our identity. For our latest narrative, we hav...

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...

Kasamas Rise Up, Podcast Host meets Erin Enriques, Third-generation Filipino-American. She is currently a fourth year student  studying international relations and environmental science. Erin is a great granddaughter of Vicente “Inting” Eligio, a sakada from the Philippines In this podcast narrative episode we not only reflect with Erin what it means to be a Filipina but we talk about the importan...

Kasamas Rise Up, Podcast Host meets Emily Erika, first-generation Filipino-American who was raised on the west side of Oʻahu. She is currently a second year medical student with hopes of becoming a primary care physician. She is passionate about mentoring first generation students especially those with aspirations of going to medical school. Emily is a granddaughter of a Filipino Sakada, Victorian...

Kasamas Rise Up, A spin-off and re-brand show of our podcast series with a whole new look and name.  Thrrough this spin off, we will have three featured guests from the diaspora before we dive into the Sakada stories in the coming months.  Today's featured episode we have Rome Lim, (he/him) He is our blog writer for Kasamahan Co with a passion in the creative industry. He is currently the director...

A conversation with Jordan Tano, a 1st generation-2nd generation Filipino, Chinese and Japanese American who was roots between Guam, California and Hawai'i. For his podcast narrative we briefly talk about this local identity and reflecting on what it means for him to stay close with family specially his grandparents and those he look up too. Jordan is the producer behind Hawai'i Verse Podcast (haw...

Reina is an award-winning filmmaker who graduated in 2022 from Yale University. Originally from California, she is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her semi-autobiographical short film and directorial debut, “LAHI”, has been accepted into several film festivals, won the audience award at San Diego Filipino Film Festival, and has secured streaming distribution with an AAPI-owned production company....

The conversation is also available on our website: www. Kasamahancollective.com From sharing her Filipina-American experience as a queer pinay who advocates her culture through her small business of Perfectly Pinay — we learned that when it comes to her journey a huge chunk of it has to be the many lessons she learned from her grandparents and the values that her parents has taught her. Raised by...

Gaven Sugai (he/him) 4th generation Filipino-Japanese born and raised in Kailua, O'ahu. He is an accountant by day and a podcaster at night. Growing up, He used to identify himself more with his Japanese side than Filipino. I didn’t embrace Filipino as an equal part of me until I dated my wife. It was only through cooking and learning Filipino cuisine that I embraced being Filipino and Japanese as...

Liberty Peralta (she/her) born on the 4th of July in Honolulu, Hawai’i and raised in the rural town of Wai’anae in West O’ahu. She is the DIrector of Marketing and Communications at Hawai’i Public Radio as well as the Founder and Owner of a Local Cat Cafe in Kaimuki called, “Popoki + Tea”  Produced by: Chachie A.  Support Us on AnchorFM by donating $1, $5, $10 to help keep the platform a...

Sally Millon (she/her), born and raised in the Kingdom of Hawai'i in a multigenerational household. Graduate of Loma Linda University with Master’s Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics, Aspiring to be a dietitian.  To her Reclaiming her own Filipino identity means to go back to the starting point. In a sense, I feel like I need to start from the ground up:  Learning more about my family and relatives -...

A first generation queer immigrant from Manila, Philippines.  A title to capture a season of his life is the season of becoming.  Produced by: Chachie Abara  Support Us on AnchorFM by donating $1, $5, $10 to help keep the platform and for us to continue making great content for you.  (https://anchor.fm/kasamahancollective/support) Follow us on instagram @kasamahanco If you want...

Ryan Farinas (he/him), a second generation Filipino-American who is the only child of Mr and Mrs. Farinas of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte. Personally, Ryan struggled in embracing his own cultural identity but through learning what his own culture has to offer and give, he was able to learn the language, specifically the culture, superstitious, tradition that we practice and why we do certain things t...

In this episode we talk about Jaimy's growing up experience of what it means to be a Filipino settler residing in the Kingdom of Hawai'i. We briefly have touch upon the difficult journey of being a Filipino who have struggled in creating that identity growing up in Kalihi. For many tuning in, Kalihi is known for being the working class neighborhood in central Honolulu. Children of recent immigrant...

A conversation with a 2nd Generation Filipino American who had a continue to pursue a dream to break barriers. Adrian is passionate about trying new food food, restaurant and boba places! wt throughout my work week. I also like to try new foods, restaurants, and boba places, He is also the owner of @trnsnd.hnl on instagram, so make sure to check it out! He is  all about simple clothing, and c...

A conversation with a Filipino immigrant who immigrated to the Kingdom of Hawai'i with his siblings and parents through the petition of his family. Clyde is a first generation Filipino who is the first in his family to received a higher degree with a Master in Electric Engineering. You can say he achieved the "American Dream" that his families has dream for him. Most children of immigrants desires...

A conversation with a second generation Filipino American -- Sharmaine Butac is a leader, trailblazer and a true disciple of Christ. She  uses her gift of giving to aid our community through the works of using integrative holistic healing with the focus of bettering the wellness of healthy habits when it comes to our consumption of our favorite filipino foods. Sharmaine shares that to reclaim...

A conversation with FIlipino-Hawaiian instructor, Kumu J. Hauʻoli Lorenzo-Elarco is a, first and foremost, Hawaiian and Filipino. He was raised by the Kīpuʻupuʻu rains of Waimea, Hawaiʻi but currently resides in Waialua, Oʻahu. He is Instructor of Hawaiian Language at Honolulu Community College. His research interests include Native Hawaiian Intellectual History, Hawaiian Language Newspapers, Hawa...