Project Director | Co-Founder, The Entree.Pinays

Fides is an independent business consultant, venturing on her own as Fides & Associates after 15 years at City of Melbourne.

Fides’ work supports small and big business in retail, hospitality, tourism and government. She brings abundant business acumen, industry connections and visionary thinking to her leadership role within The Entree.Pinays.

Fides’ dream is to grow Australia’s first Mountain Calamansi.

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Project Director | Co-Founder, The Entree.Pinays

Grace brings a wealth of corporate and business advisory experience from her time at PwC in the US and Australia, Coles and currently as the Privacy & Customer Trust Lead at Wesfarmers' OneDigital.

Grace is also chief baking officer and owner of Sweet Cora, a thriving catering business inspired by the food of her late mother, specialising in Aussie and American desserts with a Filipino twist.

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Project Partner, Australia

Kristine is an award winning author and internationally recognised research expert and commentator on global Filipino migration and multicultural diversity in Australian and Asian cities.

Her writing sheds light on the inequalities and social injustices experienced by migrants but also unpacks how people find ways to live together in cities marked by complex social and cultural diversity.

Her first book 'Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora' (2018) was shortlisted for the Australian Sociological Association's 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize (best first book by an author in Australian sociology) and awarded a Special Commendation.

Kristine currently hold an academic appointment as Senior Lecturer in Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Project Partner, Philippines

Cathie is an F&B consultant by trade whose work provides greater understanding of consumer and industry trends that enables small to large organisations make informed decisions in today's uncertain business environment.

Her working vision is to intergrate her capabilities as an F&B consultant with her community work that fundamentally tries to improve quality of life of community members, one household at a time.

She hopes that her partnerships with communities in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora will incrementally improve the route to market of generations of calamansi growers and beyond.

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Mariam Arcilla is a Filipino-Singaporean arts and culture worker who works across creative programming, writing, communications and marketing, and digital strategy.

Her childhood was zigzagged between the Philippines, Singapore, and Hong Kong, where she was raised by a family of artists and creative cooks.

Today she works with artists and institutions in Australia to turn radiant ideas into programs, resources, and dialogues. Embedded in the arts sector since 2006, Mariam is currently the Arts Development Manager at Accessible Arts, the Co-Chair of Runway Journal, and a Future Leaders fellow at the Australia Council for the Arts.

Previous to this, Mariam has co-authored projects, publications, and strategies for leading Australian bodies, including 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Arts Queensland, Arts House Melbourne, City of Gold Coast, Institute of Modern Art, and The Entree.Pinays.

She has also collaborated on campaigns and events with Museum of Brisbane, Powerhouse Museum, Miami Marketta, THE WALLS, State Library of Qld, Semipermanent, and HOTA. Her practice is grounded by circulatory knowledge, civic care, and cross-field collaborations.

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Maysie is a multidisciplinary designer utilising her diverse areas of expertise to create thoughtful, visual language for brands. Her expertise covers print and digital design, marketing, illustration, photography and branding.

Working in a freelance capacity, Maysie contributes her many talents and energy to her role with The Entree.Pinays and The Calamansi Story.

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Erwan is a French-Filipino content creator with a passion for good food, travel, and fitness. He is the founder of The Fat Kid Inside Studios and FEATR.

The Fat Kid Inside Studios is a turnkey digital video production company creating ad, documentary, social media, and organic content. They work with various clients from brands, agencies to influencers and publish our own content on FEATR.

FEATR is a digital video channel, dedicated to food, travel, Filipino culture and telling better stories over a hot meal. From how-tos, recipes, cooking competitions, travel shows, features and documentaries, we strive to unite people through essential human needs: connection and food.