Feature by Asian Mental Health Collective for International Women’s Month
For International Women’s Month, Dr. Strobel was featured by Asian Mental Health Collective as an Asian woman shaping mental health in lasting ways.
As International Women’s Month comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the Asian women who have shaped mental health in lasting ways.
Dr. Strobel built a decolonial healing ecosystem for the Filipino diaspora. Through conferences, retreats, and study programs, her work reconnects people to indigenous Filipino frameworks like Babaylan.
Justin Jones: Black, Filipino, Civil Rights Activist
Justin Jones, a young Black and Filipino activist, reached out to me in late 2019, asking if I could help him lament the harm caused by anti-Black attitudes in the Filipino communities he grew up in. He wanted to embrace his pagka-Pilipino (Filipino-ness) as much as he embraced his Blackness. So, I introduced him to a few of the Black and Filipino scholars/culture-bearers in my circle, and I hosted a healing session on Zoom for him…