Founder & CEO Filipina on the Rise

Krystl set out on a mission to empower our Filipina community to see greatness in ourselves, educate the world who we are and celebrate what it means to be Filipina! It has grown into the amazing community at Filipina on the Rise. KrystI’s goal is to gift those who identify as Filipino with stories you can resonate with, help you feel connected to your heritage and empower you wherever you are.

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COO Filipina on the Rise

Kat B. Parsons is the force in the background behind Filipina on the Rise Operations. Kat’s ‘zone of genius’ is sustainable execution and bringing a vision to life. Local to San Francisco, CA, Kat loves hosting networking events for Filipina professions in person and with the online FOTR community. She has a gift of brining people together and keeping the fire of community burning.

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Joy Erika Diwa (she/her) is a Women’s Life Coach, Educator, and Speaker who is dedicated to helping overworked passionate women find joy within themselves. She takes pride in empowering individuals to be more confident, assertive, and to set healthy boundaries. Joy holds a B.A. in English from UCLA, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from USD, and a life coaching certification from Lumia Coaching (formerly known as JRNI Coaching).

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Jannine is a personal and professional coach based in San Francisco. Before she began coaching she worked as a restaurant General Manager in LA, Sydney and SF. Now she has two coaching practices. She founded Ascendant Connection with her fiancé, which focuses on relationship coaching. They partner with their clients to co-create purposeful lives with fulfilling intimate, interpersonal, and professional relationships. Her other practice, Ladies of The House, is coaching for women in hospitality management. Jannine works with her clients to further their leadership and communication skills and to develop and maintain empowered work-life boundaries.

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Ava is a Filipina-American solo traveler, content creator, and freelance writer based in Daly City, CA who inspires Filipino-Americans and women of color to adventure the world while showing up unapologetically as their most authentic selves. Ava has visited over 30 countries and loves highlighting local culture, food, and unique experiences in the Bay Area and abroad and always finds a way to represent her Filipina heritage.

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Trina is a certified spiritual life coach and founder of The Radical Visionary Collective. As a professional space holder, Trina has dedicated 2 decades as a Catholic youth & young adult minister building equitable leadership programs in healing & charismatic communities. In 2020, she left her ministry positions to support all those who are down with collective liberation heal from toxic colonial programming, fortify their intuition & ancestral connections, and manifest the world we all deserve. At the intersections of faith + justice, Trina centers the power of visioning, ancestral healing, and decolonization in her work to create a world of love & liberation for all.

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