In December of 2019, I had the honor of visiting the Philippines on an exposure trip with members of Gabriela Portland and Gabriela Seattle. We visited semi-urban, semi-rural areas of the island of Panay in the Western Visayan Region, learning about the conditions impacting small fisherfolk, urban poor, and peasant communities that get ravaged every year by typhoon season, worsened annually by government corruption, corporate greed, and environmental degradation. Community m
