Media and Publications – Watsonville is in the Heart

WIITH Team Member Publications

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Christina Ayson Plank, Meleia Simon-Reynolds, Olivia Sawi, and Steve McKay, “Building a Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration” FANHS Journal 11 (2023): 161-170, https://doi.org/10.1353/fil.2023.a912941.
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, “The Tractor Princess: Memories from California’s Pajaro Valley,” High Country News, August 1, 2023, https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.8/essays-people-places-the-tractor-princess.
Christina Ayson Plank and Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, “Storytellers of the Pajaro Valley,” Positively Filipino: Your Window on the Filipino Diaspora, October 5, 2022, http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/storytellers-of-the-pajaro-valley
Christina Ayson Plank and Meleia Simon-Reynolds, “Watsonville is in the Heart: Documenting Histories of Transpacific Filipinx Migration in the Pajaro Valley,” Pacific Arts Journal 22, no. 1 (2022): 250-261, https://doi.org/10.5070/PC222156851.

Nick Sestanovich, “Museum of Art and History highlights Filipino American stories,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 25, 2024, https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/24/museum-of-art-history-exhibit-highlights-filipino-american-stories/
Janelle Salanga, “Pajaro Valley Filipinos tell their communities’ stories in new museum exhibit, KAZU, April 26, 2024, https://www.kazu.org/2024-04-26/pajaro-valley-filipinos-tell-their-communities-stories-in-new-museum-exhibit
Erin Loury, “Scanning family photos helped me connect to my Vietnamese identity and too the MAH’s new Sowing Seeds exhibit,” Lookout Santa Cruz, April 14, 2024, https://lookout.co/scanning-family-photos-helped-me-connect-to-my-vietnamese-identity-and-to-the-mahs-new-sowing-seeds-exhibit/
Dan White, “Upcoming Exhibition will shine a light on vibrant Filipino American life on the Central Coast,” UCSC Newscenter, February 20, 2024, https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/02/sowing-seeds-exhibition.html
David Duncan, “An Interview with Grad Student Coordinator for Watsonville is in the Heart,” March 2, 2023, in UCSC Slugcast, podcast, 15:00, https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tucIZltiUi8b0g6kqa08e?si=386bc4b9daa4467f
Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed, “34: The Tractor Princess,” February 16, 2023, in Re:Work by the UCLA Labor Center, podcast, 28:05, https://on.soundcloud.com/zbBPq

Erin Loury, “In the Heart: Preserving and sharing Watsonville’s rich Filipino heritage,” Inquiry Research Magazine, October 26, 2022, https://inquiry.ucsc.edu/2022-23/in-the-heart/
Keith Gelderloos and Sofia Ruster, “Watsonville is in the Heart: Honoring the Manong Generation in California’s Central Coast,” City on a Hill Press, April 14, 2022, https://www.cityonahillpress.com/2022/04/14/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-honoring-the-manong-generation-in-californias-central-coast/
Allison Artega Sorgel, “Watsonville Filipino history digital archive now available for public viewing,” Lookout Santa Cruz, https://lookout.co/santacruz/education/higher-ed/story/2022-04-13/watsonville-filipino-history-digital-archive-now-available-for-public-viewing
Johanna Miller, “Watsonville is in the Heart Launches Digital Archive,” The Pajaronian, April 14, 2022, https://pajaronian.com/watsonville-is-in-the-heart-launches-digital-archive/
Christian Balderas, “UC Santa Cruz debuts digital archive of the first Filipinos in Watsonville,” KSBW 8, April 13, 2022, https://www.ksbw.com/article/digital-archive-of-filipinos-in-watsonville/39704372
Joronica Vinluan, “Filipino history digital archive is unveiled at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History,” KION 46, April 9, 2022, https://kion546.com/news/2022/04/09/filipino-history-digital-archive-is-unveiled-at-the-santa-cruz-museum-of-art-and-history/

Rachel Goodman, “New Archive Celebrates Filipino Heritage,” KSQD Community Radio, April 8, 2022, https://ksqd.org/new-archive-celebrates-filipino-heritage/

New Archive Celebrates Filipino Heritage