Leezel Tanglao

Happy 140 years @dallasnews.com!

#Opportunity: Application deadline for the 2025–2026 Act To Change Youth Ambassador Program is Sept. 21, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET!
FYLPRO's Tayo hosted 4 ambassadors in 2024-2025 and previously served as one of three mentorship sites in 2022.
acttochange.org/youth-ambass...

#Webinar: Spot the Fake: Navigating AI Content Together Across Generations
FYLPRO's Tayo, in partnership with Opt-Inspire, Inc., invites you to an engaging intergenerational conversation on digital and media literacy.
When: Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 at 9am PT/Noon ET
Register: bit.ly/TayoSpotTheF...

#Throwback: Protecting your loved ones back in 2021 is just as important today more than ever.

Help us with our next vaccine public service announcement campaign, “Mag Vax Tayo.”

#OpenCastingCall: FYLPRO's Tayo is seeking Filipino actors for a teleserye-style PSA to be released this fall.

FINAL SALE!
#Membership: Want to connect deeply with your peers in an intentional way?
At our parent org FYLPRO, we believe in the power of bringing people together.
Join FYLPRO as a member today and connect with kababayans across the diaspora.
bit.ly/FYLPROFlashM...

#Webinar: Learn from expert physicians about clinical gout symptoms, treatment, and prevention in the Filipino American community.
Usap Tayo: Hoy Tito! Watch Out for Gout - Managing Joint Health for Filipinos
When: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 8pm ET/5pm PT
Register: bit.ly/TayoGoutWebi...

#Explainer: Why Sawsawans Were Pulled From US Stores for Months

After shoppers faced months of empty store shelves and inflated prices, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the ban on certain Philippine condiments, or sawsawans.

Impact That Comes in Waves and Grows — Leezel Tanglao Sometimes, long term impact doesn't always come fast and furious. It comes in waves and builds on those brave enough to chart a course often unknown, filled with challenges and never traveled before...

Sometimes, long term impact doesn't always come fast and furious.

It comes in waves and builds on the work from those brave enough to chart a course often unknown, filled with challenges and never traveled before.

This story made my day/week:

www.leezeltanglao.com/blog/impact-...

Last week, @fylpro.bsky.social's @tayohelp.bsky.social was honored @aajaofficial.bsky.social 2025 AAPI Community Impact Award.

This didn't happen overnight. For the last 5 years, we've been meeting nearly every Sunday and we are just getting started.

Our story www.leezeltanglao.com/blog/tayos-i...

AAJA Voices, NABJ Student Projects: Where Journalists Launch Journalists share how student project programs at NABJ, NAHJ and AAJA helped set them on their career paths.

One week can really have a profound impact on your career and personal life just as @aajaofficial.bsky.social's VOICES was for me in 2003. (Shoutout and congrats to the 2025 AAJA VOICES cohort and staff)
Thank you to Mallory Carra for this piece:
nbcuacademy.com/aaja-voices-...

Last week, @fylpro.bsky.social's @tayohelp.bsky.social was honored @aajaofficial.bsky.social 2025 AAPI Community Impact Award.

This didn't happen overnight. For the last 5 years, we've been meeting nearly every Sunday and we are just getting started.

Our story www.leezeltanglao.com/blog/tayos-i...

"I'm here today because I'm Filipino"

These are 6 words hit me hard and served as a reminder of why we continue to do this work at @fylpro.bsky.social's @tayohelp.bsky.social.

Here's why:
www.leezeltanglao.com/blog/im-here...

@doublerenvoi.bsky.social

Covering crucial topics impacting the community isn't easy but it's important work.

Check out all the culturally tailored stories, explainers, videos and guides the @tayohelp.bsky.social team has been publishing these past couple of months:

Third Act For the latest updates on the film, screenings and more.

Thank you Bob. May you rest in peace and power. Your impact continues to live on and thrive through all the lives you've touched through your films and the students you taught through your classes.

Also check out Tad's film "Third Act" - about Bob's legacy: thirdactfilm.com

And the project I originally proposed in my thesis (SoCalFilAmSpaces) ironically enough lives on in another capacity via @fylpro.bsky.social's @tayohelp.bsky.social.

The Untouchables Fifty years ago, three young Filipino men fueled by determination and lured by adventure, traveled to a land of promise -- America. But not even hardships and prejudices…

Through this course, I was able to capture my uncle's story in my short film, The Untouchables: vimeo.com/5038720
This is even more meaningful now as everyone in this short film have since passed.

The Untouchables Fifty years ago, three young Filipino men fueled by determination and lured by adventure, traveled to a land of promise -- America. But not even hardships and prejudices…

When I started the MA Asian American studies program at UCLA in 2008, I had the chance to take one of his classes in the Ethno-Communications program which was co-taught by his son, filmmaker Tad Nakamura. Learning from both of these legendary storytellers have continued to influence me today.

Fifteen years ago, I defended my Masters thesis on creating a hyperlocal website for Filipino Americans at UCLA in 2010. While his expertise was in film, luckily Bob agreed to be my thesis chair and professors Valerie Masumoto and Victor Basara were part of my thesis committee.

Last month, we lost a legend. Professor Bob Nakamura was the "Godfather of Asian America media.

If you don't know him, read more about him here: www.aasc.ucla.edu/news/remembe...

Coachella 1965 Strike — Leezel Tanglao

Read more from the story I reported for The Press-Enterprise in 2005 about this underreported part of history: www.leezeltanglao.com/coachella-19...

"They set the stage for everything," said Paul Chavez, son of the late Cesar Chavez, founder of what became the United Farm Workers. "Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did."

Yet their story is fading into history's background and is rarely remembered during national observances.

By the end, nearly 1,000 workers joined the strike. They got their raise, but there was no contract between them and the growers. After the success in Coachella, many of the same Filipinos moved north to Delano, where the grape-picking season begins in September.

Fed up with working for $1.25 per hour or $1.10 per box, the strikers, mostly Filipino and many in their 50s and 60s, wanted a 15-cent-per-hour wage increase, to match the $1.40 per hour paid to former braceros.

Sixty years ago today, a group led by Larry Itliong called the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) AFL-CIO, decided to strike on May 3, 1965 in the Coachella Valley.

They were the Filipino grape pickers who 60 years ago called a strike against vineyard owners that spread north to Delano and helped spark the national farm-labor movement.

Thank you for the shoutout! Highly recommend this program! You won't regret it!

ABA names 2025 finalists for Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts CHICAGO, March 12, 2025 — The American Bar Association today announced the 24 finalists for the 2025 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, which recognize outstanding work that fosters the Ameri...

You love to see it. Great seeing @dallasnews.com's Kevin Krause and Jose Luis Adriano Meth project as a finalist for American Bar Association's 2025 Silver Gavel Awards.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Check out the project here: interactives.dallasnews.com/2024/meth-pr...

Newsroom efforts aim to get more Texans informed about voting and to the polls - Better News The Dallas Morning News gave new or infrequent voters personally curated stories that would equip them to have a voice in 2024.

Thank you to @ampress.bsky.social's Emily Ristow for the opportunity to share lessons we learned at Dallas Morning News in informing people about voting process and getting more people to the polls in 2024 election. Steve Bruss, Ashley Slayton and I share 4 highlights betternews.org/newsletter-s...

What a time to be alive. I never thought I’d see the day that “Finding your roots” would finally feature a Filipino guest and even better it’s Lea Salonga. Hope to see more kababayans and Asian and Asian Americans in general profiled on this great show www.pbs.org/video/larger...

Dallas does Dry January: How local bars and businesses changed what ‘not drinking’ means Celebrating without booze gets easier thanks to shops like Beyond the Bar, drinks like Community Beer’s Nada and lounges like Double D’s.

"About 30% of Americans don’t drink alcohol, and until fairly recently, the booze industry mostly ignored them." Like I've always said, it's such a missed opportunity. So glad to see more of this: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...