Last month, Christine attended the annual SXSW event in Texas. South by Southwest (SXSW) is an event that promotes helping creative people achieve their goals through conferences and festivals spanned over several days.

Christine focused on promoting Asian American awareness over 3 days at SXSW, working with several influential people and major companies to make it all come together.

DAY 1: META PROSPER (formly.. Facebook)

Meta Prosper (along with Panda Express and Simple Human) was one of the major sponsors for day 1 as they supported their own Asian American group of the Meta offices.

Majority of day 1 highlighted 2 Asian Founded companies, Always Be Creating, and Asian Creator House.

‘Always Be Creating’ is a community of Asian American content creators and ‘Asian Creator House’ is a collective of people of Asian American creators (free group). Together we held an educational content summit during day 1 of SXSW.

DAY 2: Dining with melissa miranda!

For day 2, we knew we wanted an Asian Woman chef to celebrate woman’s history month, so we invited famous Filipino chef Melissa Miranda (owner of Musang in Seattle) to show us a bit of her culinary fine art. Chef Miranda is an strong supporter of sustainability and has been changing the narratives of people in the restaurant industry. As a Filipino cuisine chef, she is known to be one of the first people to provide full benefits for her restauarant staff.