This video highlights what she and her staff are doing during COVID – aiming to serve the #FilipinoAmerican community by gathering and sharing accurate news and information; telling stories in a culturally-relevant way; and providing tips from experts on how to survive and possibly thrive during this time.
Joining us in this So Alive segment that aired as part of our SOjourn, to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary last July 25th – is successful Filipino-American #makeupartist – turned entrepreneur #MallyRoncal of Mally Beauty – who rose to fame for being make up artist to Hollywood A-listers Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez.
We invited Mally to give us tips on “How to color your world when everything seems drab and dull.”
During this pandemic, people are learning about essentials vs non-essentials – what do we truly meed in life, in order to survive, and maybe even thrive? What are the things we cannot live without? For our host, she says it’s food, family and faith. And so she gathered some of her friends who are moms and with their families, as they share their thoughts and learnings during this time.
#PhilippineBasketball star Jimmy Alapag and his wife, TV/host and actress Lj Moreno share their love story in this interview done on their 9th year wedding anniversary in Southern California.
They go through their 4 year history and remember that they were actually broken up before getting back together again. They said they each knew that when they broke up they were not yet ready for a serious relationship to begin with. Jimmy says that he still had the urge to hang out with his friends while LJ wanted to travel around the world. Neither of them ever thought they would get back together again.
This So Awoke segment of our Virtual Sojourn to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary, #sojannelle3 – consists of 3 interviews that cover current #socialissues of LGBTQIA+, Black Lives Matter, and Mental Health.
In today’s segment of So Inspiring, we have Roland Santos of the #PhilippineNursesAssociation of Southern California to discuss the alarming rate of spikes of Covid-19 all over the States. He explains that the situation we are currently in is quite unfortunate as “we are back where we started” – referring to the situation just 3 months ago. It could even be worse right now as hospitals are seeing more and more patients. He thinks that the sudden spread of the virus can be attributed to people who have not been exercising safe precaution against social gathering and not wearing masks.
In today’s segment we talk to 2 Filipino American representatives for both the Republican and Democratic parties, to discuss their support for their respective presidential candidates in the upcoming #November2020 #uspresidentialelections
In today’s segment, we are celebrating #LGBTQIA+ community by having Tita Aida enlighten us on issues the communities are facing. She is a local personality from the Bay Area whose advocacy and activism revolves around HIV & AIDS in the A&PI LGBTQIA+ communities. She is also currently the Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the San Francisco Community Health Center, formerly known as API Wellness.
An estimated 4%, or about 150,000, of nurses in the U.S. are Filipino, but in some regions they account for a much larger share of caregivers. In California, for example, nearly 20% of registered nurses are Filipinos. One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. And because of their Covid-19 exposure – – – the risk for #Filipinoheathcareworkers to contract the highly-contagious virus is elevated; and some have fallen to it.
Serial science and technology entrepreneur, Yobie Benjamin talks about fighting the coronavirus pandemic by perfecting #covidtesting Yobie, who also won the 2015 Technology Pioneer award from the World Economic Forum (best known as the Davos Conference) and is currently producing testing kits, breaks down the differences between PCR testing which is collected by swabbing specimen from individuals and the antibody testing by drawing blood.
