Featured in Northwest Asian Weekly!
In June, we celebrated Philippine Independence at the Pagdiriwang Philippine Festival, the longest-running Philippine cultural festival in the Pacific Northwest. As part of the festival, Diwa ran a free screening program featuring 30 films celebrating the Filipino spirit wherever it resides. I was interviewed by Andrew Hamlin of Northwest Asian Weekly about my work on…
Featured in KIRO 7 News!
I recently had the honor to represent and talk about the Seattle Asian American Film Festival with KIRO 7 News reporter Paola Tristan Arruda, just a few days before our 14th edition held from May 29 to 31, 2026. It was a great conversation about how important it is to hold space for our stories,…
Featured in Ancestry.com!
Thanks to my dissertation work, I have had the opportunity to work extensively with a number of archives that feature the lives and legacies of the Sakadas, migrant sugar plantation workers who became part of the early wave of labor migration of Filipinos from the Philippines to Hawaiʻi, the US West Coast, and beyond. Thanks…
Article published at the International Examiner!
I have recently joined the International Examiner as a freelance news writer. My first assignment was to cover the potential impacts of the “Big Beautiful Bill” to the residents of Chinatown-International District as well as the rest of Seattle. If you live in Seattle, please grab a copy of this month’s issue of the International…
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Adrian Alarilla 