Asian Pacific Heritage

Cheryl Diaz Meyer

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Cheryl Diaz Meyer was born and raised in the Philippines and immigrated with her family to Minnesota in 1981. Having grown up in a variety of countries during her youth, Diaz Meyer is conversant in German, French, Spanish, Tagalog and Bikol (Filipino languages). She attended the University of Minnesota in Duluth where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in German in 1990. She worked as a photography intern at several newspapers including The Washington Post. She has traveled to the Philippines and Indonesia to photograph violent Muslim and Christian extremism, and to Guatemala to document a country healing from 36 years of civil strife. She has also photographed stories in China, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Slovakia and Russia, among others.

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EVENT: Volunteers Launch Weekend “Blitz” To Save Oaks From Deadly Disease

Saturday, April 28, 2012 By Howard Dyckoff, Oakland Voices Correspondent Oakland is famous for its oak trees but those are at risk due the algae-like disease called Sudden Oak Death (SOD) syndrome, which has devasted coastal forests in Northern California. Oak trees are needed [...]
 
  

  

    


  
  	    

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Thanks to everyone who applied to our 2012 East Oakland project, and to our 2010 West Oakland project graduates as well as all of the organizations – including East Oakland Building Healthy Communities – who helped us recruit. Our application [...]