Officers 2009 - 2011
Joselyn Geaga-Rosenthal (Chair)
Joselyn has been a life long Democrat, an activist, fighting for equality of services and opportunities for all, committed to bolstering the key service institutions of childcare, education K-12, and health care.
She believes that helping families raise children in a safe nurturing environment and providing them a solid education benefits everyone with an empowered citizenry that’s vigilant and participatory in ensuring that our government is "of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Joselyn is also a resident and business owner in the officially designated Historic Fililipinotown area of Los Angeles. For the third year in a row, she is the executive producer of the Historic Filipinotown Festival and 5K Run, to be held on August 1, 2009.
Founding President of PALAD ( Philippine American Los Angeles Democrats); past FADC Southern Vice-Chair
Joselyn received her B.A. in Social Work from UCLA, Master’s In Social Work from USC and is currently a private practicing licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist.
Her goals as 2009-2011 FADC State Chair is to continue building the organization and establishing new Democratic grass roots clubs throughout California.
Timothy Dayonot (Northern California Vice Chair)
Born in the Philippines, he has worked for three California Governors, including serving as a Community Relations Representative for former California Governor Jerry Brown. In 2000, he was appointed by Governor Gray Davis as the Director of the California Department of Community Services and Development, a position he also held for nearly two years under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. During his six years as Director, he administered nearly $1 billion in state and federal funds.
Since 1998, he has taught negotiations at U.C Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He also teaches negotiations at U.C. Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and has taught negotiations at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. At Stanford Law School, he co-taught a legal negotiation workshop sponsored by the Stanford Center on Conflict & Negotiation and was a teaching consultant to Stanford Law School’s Gould Center on Dispute Resolution. The State Bar of California has approved his negotiations trainings for continuing education credits.
His other professional experience includes serving as the Government Relations Manager for the United Way of the Bay Area, Government & Community Relations Representative for U.C. San Francisco and Government & Public Affairs Manager for the S. F. Public Utilities Commission.
Active in civic affairs, his past positions include serving as a member of the State Bar of California’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Chair of the Contra Costa Human Relations Commission, Chair of the Low-Income Oversight Board of the California Public Utilities Commission and a member of the California Board of Accountancy. He is a member of the San Francisco–Manila Sister City Committee, a Board of Member of the Filipino-American Political Action Committee, Vice-Chair of the Friends of the Filipino American Community (PAC) and a member of the Filipino-American Democratic Caucus of the CA Democratic Party.
He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government and a law degree from the University of San Francisco. He has received additional negotiations training from the Program on Negotiations at Harvard, the Program on Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School and the Public Disputes Program at MIT. He was twice elected student body president at S.F. State University, where he received a B.A. in political science.
While teaching negotiations at U.C. Berkeley as previously noted, he operates his own negotiation training/consulting firm in Berkeley, California. His clients have included Expedia.com, Amgen Corporation, Northrop Grumman Space Technologies, the Attorney General of Texas, National Public Radio, Western Independent Bankers Association, Paragon Real Estate, UCSF School of Medicine, S.F. International Airport, S.F. Controller’s Office and CompassPoint.
Robert Dawa (Central California Vice Chair)
Robert Dawa was born in San Francisco and has resided in Sacramento for the last eighteen years. Robert is the Immediate Past Chair of the Filipino-American Democratic Caucus, having served from 2006-2007, and was first elected as Caucus Chair in 2003, serving until 2005. When he has not served as Chair, Robert is currently and has been the Vice Chair representing the Central Valley, Coastal, and Mountain Region (thirty [30!] counties outside the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego areas).
Robert became active in the Democratic Party on the urging of his union co-workers. Since 1995, he has served on the Democratic State Central Committee, either through the Sacramento County Democratic Central Committee (SCDCC) or via the Tenth Assembly District. He was elected Vice Chair of the SCDCC in 1999, and elected Chair of the SCDCC in 2001. He was the first person of color to be elected to that post from the start of the term and to serve the full term, ending in 2003. The highlight of the term was presiding over the Democratic Sweep of all the statewide offices, in which Robert spent the next three days visiting the County Registrar’s office, encouraging the vote counters, protecting them from Republican harassment, and ultimately helping insure that the sweep was complete with Steve Westly being elected Controller.
Robert has encouraged Filipino-Americans to get involved with politics through the Party and its candidates. When he has not worked for the major officeholders and candidates, he has worked for or with Filipino candidates such as Tom Santos (Congress and Board of Equalization), Rufino Bautista (State Senate) and current and former Assembly candidates Henry Manayan, Arlie Ricasa, and Christopher Cabaldon.
Robert currently works in governmental accounting, and was recently elected to the Executive Board of his union.
Ralph Dimarucut (San Diego Co-Vice Chair)
Ralph is a recent graduate from San Diego State University where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Asian Pacific Studies. While working towards his Degree he dedicated his time and energy to serving several Asian American and Filipino American community organizations in San Diego.
During his last semester of college he interned for San Diego City Councilman Anthony Young, where his passion for public service was realized.
Currently, Ralph is a Field Representative for Assemblymember Mary Salas of California’s 79th Assembly District. Among other duties, he is the member’s liaison to the Veterans Community, the Asian Pacific Islander community, as well as National City, Paradise Hills, and Imperial Beach.
He is happy and honored to be able to contribute towards the Filipino American Democratic Caucus’s mission.
Pat Washington, PhD. (San Diego Co-Vice Chair)
Pat Washington is a women’s studies scholar and activist. A sociologist by training, she uses a gendered lens to examine social stratification in the U.S. and abroad, with an emphasis on social inequalities and efforts to eradicate those inequalities. Her publications to date have focused on the impact of social location (race, sex, class, sexuality, etc.) on the nature and quality of services available to survivors of sexual violence; within-group oppression in communities of color and in mainstream lesbian and gay communities; and resistance/social justice strategies—most notably the utility of community-based service learning in advancing academic scholarship and social activism.
She is an award-winning teacher and a prolific scholar, and she has received widespread local, state, and national recognition for service and activism. 
Ligaya Rebolos (Los Angeles Vice Chair)
Ligaya Rebolos was born in the Philippines, on the island of Mindanao, and then moved to the U.S.A. in 1988. Since that migration to the U.S. she's been gripped by the qualitative difference between the conditions of life in her native land as compared to those in her new home: the lasting effects of sane economic policies which promote and defend the General Welfare even for the lower 80% of the population, as well as for that population to participate politically in the fight to demand such actions.
Therefore, Ligaya's focus is the remedy for, not only the Filipino community which is being hit very hard, but for the American population as a whole, who are getting trampled by the total collapse of the world's physical-economic, and financial systems. With intense historical study, she is convinced that such real life human hardships are due to the effects of deregulation, outsourcing (Free Trade/Globalization), post-industrial economics, i.e. the policies of London and Wall Street, a "monetary policy." She strongly believes that the Fil-Am caucus should practice the art of outreach, to engage and educate the different layers of leaders in our community, to bring them into the Democratic Party dialogue. By bringing forth a discussion on policy, the caucus can demonstratively act, by fighting to restore what was stolen from them, their sense of security: mortgages, pensions, productive jobs, real quality education for our children and health care.
Thus, Ligaya wishes to bring energy to the caucus in order to fulfill such a task of outreach and policy education. In addition to that, she also wants to again secure that which defined our Party, that mission of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, so that our Party is once again conscious of WHICH POLICIES are necessary in order to actually be on the side of the lower 80% of the population, not on that of Wall Street swindlers. As a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement from 2002-2009, and having thus made rigorous studies of the history of FDR's/Lincoln's/Hamilton's/and even JFK's physical-economic policies, she personally has validated, what is demonstrably a proof of principle, that, in this moment, such principled policies, if applied today will work once again, to get us out of this present crisis.
During these recent 7 years, she's been intensely involved with numerous political strategic flanks, such as fighting against the atrocious and Total "Re-Call" which opened the door for the Governator, Bush and Cheney's surprise drive to "privatize" the U.S. Social Security System, the combating of Micheal Bloomberg's attempt to hijack the 2008 Presidental nomination away from Hillary Clinton, and most recently exposing the incompetent and deadly nature of the bailouts of the fictitious speculative gambling debts of Wall Street and London. All this, while also posing the embedded solutions inherent in the examples of FDR's Banking Holiday type of bankruptcy reorganization, and the New Deal type productive investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, and agriculture, as all this is provided by Mr. LaRouche.
As a result, Ligaya has a strong working relationship with many Los Angeles area Democrats, Pilipino and otherwise, as especially typified by her position as Secretary of the Pilipino American Los Angeles Democrats (PALAD). She also has a good working relationship with the leadership of the local L.A. County Democrats, such as Eric Bauman, the Chair of the Los Angeles Central Committee and Vice Chair of CA State Democratic Party.
Ligaya knows that only a radical and sudden shift in policy, can break such an accelerating momentum of economic breakdown, and so she's committed to the caucus, and to the CDP, and thus, in her role, to leading in generating that change. As well as tenaciously acting to ensure President Obama does fulfill his constituent assigned mission to turn around the economy, and create thus, a better future for not only those living, but for generations to come.
Fel Anthony Amistad (Corresponding Secretary)
Fel Anthony Amistad is current County Commissioner in San Mateo since 2007. He is a community activist and serves as Secretary to the FilAm Democratic Caucus of the California Democratic Party. He is also the Vice President of the Filipno American Democratic Club of San Mateo County.
He has been a delegate to CDP Conventions, including the April 24-26, 2009. Amistad is a Board Director of Asian American Unity and the 80-20initiative.net, advocating the appointment of more Asian American judges, in government leadership positions, and other empowerment. Amistad is also a director and Vice President of FilAm Coalition FilAm Chamber of Commerce President, and Lions Club 4C4 past president. Amistad is a graduate of Stanford University ( Human Biology, BA) and holds advanced business and law degrees..
Amistad ran for San Mateo County Board of Education and came in very close to victory. However he believes that our Filipino American community needs to mature and seek political empowerment via the voting booth and through financial support of worthy political candidates. His devotion to public service includes other civic organizations such as California Health Initiatives where he was finance controller. Amistad is also involved in his daughter's PTA where he volunteered to mentor and teach students, raise funds for athletic programs, and stay active in school activities.
Amistad is currently owner of his finance company specializing in commercial residential finance and is a member of his County Association of Realtors in San Mateo.
Community awards: Amistad has received several awards for his community service. He was awarded businessman of the year by the Filipino community in 2000 and is a Delta Mu Delta society member for his attainment of scholarship performance in his postgraduate studies.
Katrina Romero (Recording Secretary)
Katrina was born and raised in the Bay Area, and is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in Political Economy of Industrial Societies. She is a past participant of the University of the Philippines’ Research Program, where she studied the participation of women in microfinance institutions.
In the 2006 statewide election she was Volunteer Director for the California Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign in Oakland, CA. She has ten years of experience in youth and leadership development, and has worked to provide direct services for the homeless and disability communities through non-profit organizations including Hands On Bay Area and the Special Needs Aquatic Program.
As Field Director for Filipinos for Obama, Katrina worked with hundreds of first-time volunteers to implement the national field plan, registering and mobilizing Asian American voters in swing states. She continues to serve on the national steering committee of FFO, which now operates under the name Kaya.
In January 2009, Katrina was appointed as a delegate to the California Democratic Central Committee, representing the 19th Assembly District. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Filipino American Democratic Club of San Mateo County as Recording Secretary.
Alice Bulos (Principal Advisor)
Alice Bulos attended the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines in 1948, graduating with a B.A. and M.A. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She began her professional career as Professor of Sociology at the University of Santo Tomas and eventually became the Chairman of the Department of Sociology. She moved to Sacramento California in 1977 to pursue a career with CETA as an Employment Counselor.
Alice has served as an advocate for seniors and women by her numerous activities including the an appointment to the Federal Council on the Aging by former President Clinton, acting as delegate to the White House Conference On The Aging, serving as Regional Chair of the National Filipino-American Women’s Network and participating with the Sacramento Asian/Pacific Women’s Network. Her County involvement includes serving as Commissioner for the San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women and the Health Plan of San Mateo County. She has served as a Board Member for numerous community organizations and agencies.
She has been honored as Women Warrior of the Year by the Pacific Asian American Women Bay area Coalition and has been inducted into the San Mateo County Women’s Hall of Fame.