In 2018, Angel Bonilla began her singing career as the first openly trans contestant on "The Voice." When the pandemic swept the country, she left it all behind to care for the sick -- only to end up a COVID…
Black Filipino chef Channing Centeno has spent his life bringing people together through cookery. In 2020, as people nationwide fought for racial justice, chef Centeno fed the hungry in the streets, using Filipino delicacies to fuel social change.
Belinda is a veteran nurse and typical Filipina "auntie." She left the Philippines to work as a nurse through the AIDS epidemic, the first Gulf War in Iraq, and eventually at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the center of New York's…