PinoyBuilt — Stories of Filipino America

Sacramento, California • August 2026. Stingers Up: The Day We Moved Nica Into Sacramento State. sacramento state move in day, csus dorm move in, filipino american family college, back to school 2026, freshman move in day, kapamilya archive, sac state hornets. KAPAMILYA • SACRAMENTO, CA • AUGUST 2018 Stingers Up: The Day We Moved Nica Into Sacramento State A laundry cart, a suitcase, and three generations of family — how we sent our eldest off to Sacramento State on freshman move-in day, August 24, 2018. Move-in day, Sacramento State — August 24, 2018. Photographed by a Fil-Am student working the university's media department, shooting freshman move-in day across campus that morning. Every parent posting a back-to-school photo this week is really posting the same photo: a kid, a car or a cart, boxes that don't all fit, and a version of themselves that only shows up for one morning a year. Ours is from eig...

Los Angeles · April 2026. From Quezon City to Sacramento: Jessica Caloza and the Filipina Who Broke California's Glass Ceiling. jessica caloza, first filipina california state assembly, fil-am politics, historic filipinotown, rob bonta, assembly district 52, eagle rock, quezon city, aca 18, uc board of regents, kagitingan, filipino american representation, sacramento, los angeles. COMMUNITY PROFILE • APRIL 2026 From Quezon City to Sacramento: Jessica Caloza, the First Filipina in California's State Legislature She grew up watching TFC in a working-class household. Now she writes state law — and she's just getting started. Assemblymember Jessica Caloza (D-Los Angeles) represents California's 52nd Assembly District. She was sworn in on December 2, 2024 as the first Filipina ever elected to the state legislature. (Photo: Office of Assemblymember Caloza) On a December morning in 2024, inside the California State Capitol in Sacram...

California • March 2026. UC Davis Received 122,271 Applications for Fall 2026 — What Filipino-American Students Need to Know. uc davis admissions 2026, filipino american college, uc davis fall 2026, california university admissions, fil-am students UC, aggie pride, sacramento. EDUCATION • CALIFORNIA • MARCH 2026 UC Davis Received 122,271 Applications for Fall 2026 — What Filipino-American Students Need to Know Before you chase the admit rate, understand the community waiting for you. At UC Davis, Filipino identity isn't an extracurricular — it is an infrastructure, a history, and a home. There is a version of the UC Davis conversation that Filipino-American families have been having for years — the one about admit rates, GPA thresholds, and whether it's a "safety" or a "target." That conversation matters, and we will get to those numbers. But there is a deeper reason Fil-Am students ha...

California • March 2026. California's Filipino Power Map: Where 1.7 Million Filipinos Live, Work, and Build Community. filipino americans california, fil-am california, filipinos in california, daly city filipinos, vallejo filipinos, los angeles filipinos, san diego filipinos, bay area filipinos, california filipino population, philippine diaspora california. CALIFORNIA • MARCH 2026 California's Filipino Power Map: Where 1.7 Million Filipinos Live, Work, and Build Community From Historic Filipinotown in LA to the Navy-rooted streets of Vallejo — this is the definitive breakdown of where Filipino America lives, and why California is the center of the diaspora story. If you want to understand Filipino America, you start with California. Roughly 1.7 million Filipinos live in the state — about 38% of the entire U.S. Filipino population . That's not just a statistic. It's a living, breathing network of familie...