Kasamahan Co

Seeking New Adventure through Banyan Roots ft, Jonah Konop

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 small business at @nanea.designs

Season 10 Episode 10 AJ Alcover

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!

Season 10 - Episode 9 Marinelli Joy Ulep

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 Gawa Youth Council and Miss Oahu Filipina Scholarship Pageant. She currently is an member of Advisory Boards for local high school academies. Marnelli is also a wife, mother to two, and daughter to immigrant parents.

Season 10 - Episode 8: Tiffany Nohea Kasoga

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 varied through her genealogy. Key terms you should know: * Kama'aina - is a word describing Hawaii residents regardless of their racial background, as opposed to kanaka which means a person of Native Hawaiian ancestry. * 'Aina - Land

Season 10, Episode 7 - Demiliza Saramosing

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 working-class Kalihi. She waded through the stresses of poverty, policing, and assimilation in Kalihi alongside other racialized, diasporic, local, and Kānaka Maoli peers. For Demiliza, she believes that she and her peers collectively challenged their colonial realities through the building of new, fun, and pleasurable cultural identities grounded in Kalihi and other forms of youth subcultures. This Kalihi youth culture and consciousness has led Demiliza to identify and align herself with social justice movements that heal our relationships to land, waters, and to one another in her adulthood. Demiliza’s hybrid cultural youth experiences led her to align with and build transoceanic relationships in queer, feminist, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and scholarly spaces in Hawai’i, Oregon, California, Minnesota and globally. These experiences and relationships inform her commitments for decolonial and abolitionist justice in her scholarship and activism. ____________________________________________________________________  C O N N E C T with our guest here: @bisayanremix; @mykalihi  S U P P O R T us on: Venmo: @kasamahanco F O L L O W us on: tiktok, instagram and youtube: @kasamahanco