Ryne Dionisio is a Senior Software Engineer at Saggezza. Ryne has organized the Filipino Americans Coming Together (FACT) conference in the past and has attended and presented at several Filipino community conferences in the Midwest and nationally. He is a founder of the Midwest Association of Filipino Americans (MAFA) and formed the Chicago team for BakitWhy.com. In 2015 he was tapped to help create the Chicago chapter of Pilipino American Unity for Progress (UniPro) and served as chapter president. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mark 'TK' Libatique has been part of the UniPro family since 2010. In the past, he directed UniPro NY's Usapan college workshop program. He's been a journalist, freelance editor, tour guide, museum program researcher, French and Mandarin teacher, and currently works in immigration advocacy while going to grad school and trying to be a halfway decent father to Gohan and Asami (cats, obv). TK has represented the Capacity Building team at the New York Immigration Coalition since 2017. In his position, he has been involved with major regional campaigns to protect New Yorkers' rights in the face of a hostile presidential administration.

Dennis Perez is a Support Engineer for AWS Cryptography/Identity at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, WA. He is a United States Air Force Veteran and worked as an Intelligence Analyst and previously, he worked as a Technical UNIX Instructor serving the U.S. Department of Defense. He was born and raised in Sacramento, CA and started his involvement in the community with Sinag-Tala, a community-based Filipino American performing arts organization. From there, he has been involved in various Filipino American organizations such as Pilipino Youth Coalition (PYC), Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), and KAYA: Filipinos for Progress. He is a Filipina/o American community advocate with a focus on student organizations and organizational development in different states such as Alaska, Maryland, and Texas. He is also the co-founder/leadership team of the employee resource group (ERG), Filipinos@Amazon and serving on the Board of Directors for a national Filipino American young professional organization, Pilipino American Unity for Progress (UniPro).

Kathryn Rabuy, LMSW  is an Evidence Based Program Coordinator for New York City Teens Connection (NYCTC), a program through the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. NYCTC works to ensure that teens living in New York City have access to comprehensive sexual health education and reproductive health services in teen-friendly health centers. This is done through professional development with teachers and mobilization efforts in health centers around the city. On top of this role, she is currently serving as a Site Supervisor of NYC health centers for the COVID-19 Express Testing initiative. She continuously hopes that the humidity under her face shield and surgical mask does not enhance the growth of her mustache.

In the past, she has volunteered as a trainer and core member of the program, Outsmart NYC, whose goal is to stop sexual violence in bars, restaurants, and clubs through primary prevention workshops. Kathryn’s foundation is social work and she has served as a Social Work Intern turned Counselor for Planned Parenthood of New York City supporting abortion patients.

Aside from Kathryn’s unyielding passion for sexual health and reproductive justice, she vehemently advocates for inclusion, intersectionality, mental health education and ancestral healing. She is also active in dismantling anti-blackness and patriarchy.

She is a graduate of New York University’s Silver School for Social work and lives in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan New York with her furson, Pudge. She makes an effort to sit on all of her chairs at home daily.

Ian Zamora (he/him/his) is 1.5 generation man of Philippine descent. He comes from California, specifically, the Bay Area where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching with a minor in Asian American Studies from San José State University and his Master of Arts from University of San Francisco in Higher Education and Student Affairs. Ian has worked in multicultural affairs for the past few years doing work in both multicultural/cross-cultural centers as well as gender and sexuality resource centers. Central to his work is both Critical Hope and Hip Hop as he believes that we should create tangible conditions for students deal with situations in their lives and to live out as their whole selves in the different spaces they are present in. Outside of this work, he loves to play video games, rock climb, play basketball, DJ, and cook. If he had to do anything besides working in higher education, he would be doing specialty food pop-ups where he curates the menu and is the DJ for the event as well!