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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: “Ano ba talaga trabaho mo?”
Description: 27-year-old artist Renren Galeno’s parents used to ask her that question. Not anymore, not after her illustrations were part of “Searching for Maura,” a ground-breaking investigative report in the Washington Post that was a finalist for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes. Discovered because of her comics on climate anxiety, the Davao native gave a unique Filipino perspective to a major American journalism project that unearthed a long-buried scandal involving the US government’s Smithsonian Museum. The project also blew open a hidden part of Philippine history that saw Filipinos displayed in a human zoo at the 1904...