Filipinos set foot on the North American continent for the first time over four centuries ago, and Filipino Americans are still on a quest to make a cultural footprint.

It shows that women, too, were critical in developing the Filipino community in the East Bay and in Oakland,” O’Malley said. O’Malley’s great-grandparents immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, ...

Both women longed to be in community with like-minded Filipino creatives and recognized a gap: while Filipino markets existed in the United States, few reflected the depth and diversity of Filipino ...