BRIDGE: ALEX LACANDAZO

The moment in my life where I felt the most connected with my Filipino heritage wasn’t till my second year of college.

Before college I didn’t know that certain things in my life and certain characteristics about myself were even related to being Filipina. I just thought that, my family is different than my friends’ families, but that was alright with me; that was all I knew, growing up in an elementary school and high school where I was one of 2 or 3 Filipino students. However, when I joined KP at UO and went on my first retreat with them, we would talk about our past growing up in a Filipino household and I realized that we went through many similar things, being Filipino American. I never felt “alone” necessarily before I connected this way with my Filipino heritage, but it definitely helped me 

​

understand my past more and it was very exciting to find people that were always down to have random jam sessions and laugh really loudly at restaurants with.

Alex graduated in 2015 from the University of Oregon with a degree in Human Physiology & Psychology.