FACE: The mission of the Filipino American City Employees (FACE) affinity group is to welcome City of Portland Employees, especially Filipinos, regardless of their language, region, religion, sexual orientation, and culture or tradition to foster one city workforce that is geared towards positive change, efficiency, and career advancement resulting in qualified, productive, self-confident and happy employees.

For more information contact a member of the FACE Leadership Committee:

• Shaina Hobbs, chair (PBOT)
• Raul Torres (BDS)
• Yvette Gayomali (BES)
• Rod Morales (BHR)

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate - We are America!

An excerpt from Carlos Bulosan's 'America Is in The Heart'

WATCH: a 7 minute summary video of Filipino American history