Summer Honors Project 2026 (upcoming)

Independent Research Study

Status: Ongoing

Summer 2026, I will be conducting an independent research study overseen by Leanne Challa. My focus is to identify barriers that college students face in engaging with mental health services on campus, with particular focus on the "threshold moment" between awareness and action that motivates students to seek help.

This will include a literature review of peer-reviewed sources, the development of an annotated bibliography and synthesis, and informal interviews with GRCC students and staff.

Graphic by Madi Reyes

Winter Honors Project 2026

Pre-Colonial Religion in the Philippines

My Honors project this semester examined indigenous spiritual practices in the pre-colonial Philippines, tracing how a native cosmology was systematically suppressed and distorted through Spanish colonization.

Drawing on scholars including Virgilio Enriquez, Renato Constantino, Leny Strobel, and Lenny Mendoza, I engaged the particular challenge of recovering a tradition whose surviving documentation was produced largely by the colonizers who sought to erase it.

This research and represents both a scholarly inquiry and a personal act of ancestral reclamation as a first-generation Filipino-American.

Below you will find my works cited, speaker notes, and slideshow presentation.

Presentation Deliverables:

View My Public Research Library

Pre-Colonial Religion in the Philippines Speaker Notes.pdf

Presentation Speaker Notes + Works Cited

Pre-Colonial Filipino ReligionPresentationFINAL.pdf

Presentation Slide Show

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