hi my name is Emily element while Campbell I am a first generation in great thank god love because not Filipino American market and student I came to the U. S. when I was eight years old and I've been here I've been here since it's been what seventeen years now I love being involved with the with the community and doing community work doing community service and supporting the communities with some who like who supported me in my undergraduate experience I graduated from the university of Utah with a bachelor of arts in communication and Asian Pacific Islander studies out of ethnic studies and so I really I really see myself as a person who believes that no you have to give back to the community who has and who have invested in you and for me now since I'm in a position where I am you know full time employed and and and doing a lot of different things it's a share my resources with students who who may have different kinds of opportunities of myself so that they have these opportunities as well when I was doing my masters when I was in my undergraduate career I was involved in a lot of different things but I think some of the most formative ones for me in the ones I was really passionate about that comes to mind where the Asian Americans in association and the Pacific islanders an association through both I was able to develop Mike my own identity of being you know if you are looking online and identifying with that it's just not part of my ethnicity that I would never have before being and so it's easier and pizza really he ignited my passion for serving students particularly first generation low income students of color LGBTQ students undocumented students incidents with its with disabilities to to really serve them and and increase their access to higher education and so I'm I'm also actually currently studying I'm in part of that masters of education in educational leadership and policy program here at the university of Utah it's your program just to kind of build up all of my passion for student affairs that ease and peace are really the start inside of me on the windy side that that was that part of like really easy igniting my fire my passion for serving the community with you thought it was really it ignited my passion to learn more about my ethnic and cultural it's an identity so I wasn't so those are some of the stuff but I was also heavily involved through east at pizza with the box of the union and match us so I'm forever menses that and also the in trouble sit association all of like through all of those I've developed lifelong friendships and and it is the lake there the friends I have after high school I stopped talking to a bunch of my friends from high school because I didn't I I realize that they weren't really there for me with the relationships and friendships and develop a set piece and now like what eight years later we still talk to each other I go if it's the wedding their their their kids being born or the kids birthdays are we catch up and and it's just like one big family I was also involved and and created the American Association of house I threw that my involvement with the ability to American Association of Utah are like the the oldest organization for the Filipino community here that's that's where that came from and I I really that really came after being of all with a pizza because of their they're wanting me to become like a better person for me I want to understand my Filipino side more because growing up my parents were involved in the community so I wasn't but my grand my personal grandparents where I'm here in Salt Lake City so I saw that as important currently I am involved as well with the multicultural commission here for the state of Utah I'm also involved with some pan Asian Pacific Islander organizations based on civil rights and social justice so see those the Utah chapter most Asian Pacific American advocates and then there's also the Japanese American citizens league locally with a solid chapter I've been involved with and also then more recently the national talking American society just when they're different advocacy is and work I haven't held positions in G. C. L. or NCAA asked but with OCA I have I'm actually about to become the chair for the year of twenty nineteen so I'm excited for that nationally I will be involved with the national federation of Philippine American associations it's kind of like CA and JC elbow specifically for Filipinos ominous is also just as our organization as well civil rights when I was sitting here cells also heavily involved in like kind of the revival of the Vietnamese Americans in association on because I saw the importance of the and like that for particularly are I saw these these are Vietnamese American students of how important it was for the culture because even Americans association was more of like instilling are as American identity learning about why that support it but the specific ethnic up student organizations were also important in the way that it it also your cultural growth here their cultural identity and how you would be able to do that and I'm I I was also involved with a lot of different community organizations you're like that you saw on this because I I dance and that's one of my passions is dancing cultural and traditional dancing arms I do that for the Filipino Americans I've been doing it for the last six seven years now I I came in and dance with like you know the Filipino axes but I really wanted to also dance and help preserve our heritage with other Filipino youth and kind of tackle on the identity with that because the Filipino and that it's a it's a it's a it's a restraint is a social construct onda Filipino has as a lot of different ethnic groups at side into it so I focus on Filipino identity development in the community in terms of gas I'm so I do a lot of traditional dancing I've done around about two hundred fifty performances with my friends through the organization of eighty and eighty eight you and so it's been really fun I I also have been asked by a lot of different people to participate in different kind of that's is and my legs and framework for that is I I try to do dances and and cultural dances that if I am invited to participate in it and kind of examining what the what the context of the situation is if they need people that for me I'm like yes of course you need to to do that and for me I also use as a way to learn about the correlations and like similarities and differences of Filipino traditional dancing with their ethnic groups additional dancing so I'm involved with the tuning line dance club which is the oldest line dance club in Salt Lake City and our chief who is she would take it is a minor and it may have been part of this group for over twenty thirty years is the oldest and so we do southern Chinese style lion dancing and so we performed a bunch of different new year animal festival and community events as well I've also done like Laotian Cambodia and and and now finally and south Asians Bollywood dancing as well so there's that I I'm I'm heavily heavily heavily invested in civic engagement as well so that's that's within our communities so you'll find me doing a lot of different kind of have because you work with different groups and different issues throughout the time but one of my meetings and I'm not doing that I'm in and out doing readings for my grad school is video games I have a call I have a growing collection of the PC shoots you an antenna sixty four games because that that's what I love sometimes give you but it's mostly basis in two games I'm collecting the R. K. what is on the fighting games saucy finer virtual fighter attack and any kind of fighting game I will call so I hope you know I I I hope you get something out of all of those and were able to connect over something and if you're interested in those different clubs yeah like we get we can definitely talk about it and get you involved and I don't this is my interest in sharing my resources and the skills that I learned with with people who are connected with anything that's a big part of my philosophy and serving as a cancer cell

so my educational background like I said before it is the and I did my bachelors of arts and I at the universities are in communication and isn't understudies out of the studies and my courage trajectory is currently at right now my five five ten year plan is to stay in student affairs to build up and and continue to serving you eat more I'm just more access but challenged the ways in which lake colleges and universities engaging with the community like restoration in low income communities of color to make sure that these communities are being served and how bees and can ride on campus and I think that's how it's going and I I I work in advising right now and I I love it and for the next three years I think I'll concede organ advising as long as I can remain relevant to the students maybe eventually I don't know I heat administration heat out and stuff and it's not currently of interest to me by being on in the future is something that I'm I might be open to it depending on how old am I just you know interest convergence right and I ended up here because of my involvement with all of those different community organizations with with my different answers intersecting identities and just wanting to and and and my expenses working with students here at the university of Utah and that's how they kind of came about as to like especially through high school on friends do all right miss Weekes from all five organized rituals that organizations out of the center for I think three affairs that's how we came about it from people who wanted to support me as I thought about dropping out as I thought about not continuing my education I was I was confused about it it was the people both here and our staff and the community members and leaders who really pushed me Ansel like Hey there's not a lot of you me like there's not a lot of people like me up here doing the work to support our communities finish school so that you can also support the rest of the students who are the rest of the youth who my get my end up in a similar situation or who are getting told otherwise might not end up there so that's really what informs my car Richard back surgery and my educational background I switched majors four times I was pretty mad pre law International Studies history physics name and I have and I was there but I really at the time communication was the most feasible option for me just because of how the major was set up in my situation and so and also that a lot with the stuff I was doing for the student groups so what I was learning I was able to put into practice already that's why

my passions he includes supporting just supporting first and low income you of color and that just stems from the fact that I was one of those you I think my my experience definitely informs that through all the friends that I then a game from those different some organizations I was involved with as an undergrad their experience also informs that it was a lot of when I was in my undergrad I was a lot of learning of how different people struggled made their way up here meeting magic happen like I witnessed miracles right and not Israel but like you know America's through the hard work of students and like my friends they they continue to stay up here in spite of everything and I don't know I I you know you should have to be so resilient does that make it through college sometimes you can just you know I don't need to be like normal whatever that is you know like you know you know like you don't have to be strong enough to be brave I think I think that's that's one of the reasons why I'm so passionate about higher education and providing access that you know I understand higher education not for everyone but at the same time the communities I mean and like the communities icy like personal income students of color communities of color we're historically not given this are excluded from this opportunity in the past and so I just want to make sure that were also challenging the power systems that play or this is a power and privilege that are continuously aptly that continue to disenfranchise these communities I'm to make sure that this is a viable option for them right thinking about like financially thing about economic looking about also just access didn't I don't know it's that's that's how it is on a lighter note I think my passions are your identity development howls students and how you that how does people like come to terms with who they are and because I know it's not you know it's a constant thing it's not a lot of finite it doesn't stop at just one point yes one of the and I think also like factoring like being because right make it is there's a word mentor which I don't think encompasses the way that I would like to do on a daily basis I think being I found some more more encompasses that and it might start in my language we are like I guess the beach as it's like it's the honorifics are for like Big Brother right are older brother right I think not role very seriously just because I don't in my in in in my culture and in my experience I think that's just been ingrained in me arm and so I just want to make sure that I'm I'm supporting like my role as a we are in my culture is that I'm looking out I'm protecting my siblings I'm understanding that my serving them I'm sharing my experience with them so they don't have to suffer or sacrifice the same things so that we have better experiences and I think that's my philosophy and and why I'm so passionate in in this I think it's just also my upbringing my parents always told me to share what I had the always you know like they're very they're very Catholic and so that's how big you know they they were very like you know god fearing god loving people but for me I think you how that translates to me was support for the people for the people challenge systems of power that are oppressive make sure everyone has an opportunity and access and the option to fail without repercussion to fail so that they can learn we can learn that I felt a lot and for me also late and that's why the dancing is also one of my passions earlier because dancing for me is a form of physical exercise is a form of embracing my indigent eighty my identity armor and feeling at home in a place that looks somewhat familiar to me yet I've been here for so long so I think I think those are those are my main passions is like is serving as is is the hand saying and and I'm not just I don't know I think that that makes up who I am some