Melissa Angela Verzosa Penafiel

Winner, 'US State Department's 2009 Democracy Video Challenge'

Guest

Filmmaker based in the Philippines; East Asia and Pacific Region winner of the US State Department's 2009 Democracy Video Challenge

Melissa Angela Verzosa Penafiel on KCRW

For the second year in a row, the US State Department is challenging people around the world to talk about democracy and what it means.

State Department’s Democracy Video Challenge, 2010

For the second year in a row, the US State Department is challenging people around the world to talk about democracy and what it means.

from To the Point

More from KCRW

Is the media’s coverage adding to the difficulties of Donald Trump’s criminal case? Where does protest cross the line into hate speech?

from Left, Right & Center

Should a rise in Congressional retirements set off alarm bells? Are Democrats off base with their current platform? How will a new law impact campus free speech?

from Left, Right & Center

Early results point to several run-off elections in Orange County, setting up competitive races for supervisors and congressional seats.

from KCRW Features

Join KCRW and NPR as the Supreme Courts hears arguments over the Colorado State Supreme Court's decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot.

from News Special Programming

The four leading Asian American groups in OC are uniting up to boost AAPI turnout at the polls. This demographic is growing the fastest, says the Pew Research Center.

from KCRW Features

With the narrow approval of Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond, Prop 1, the work begins to build thousands of treatment beds.

from KCRW Features

NPR News provides live special coverage of the 2024 South Carolina Republican presidential primary.

from News Special Programming

On this episode of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer and Les Leopold discuss Leopold’s new book, “Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the…

from Scheer Intelligence

Activists are calling on the LA Zoo to release its elephants to sanctuaries after an elephant was euthanized in January, the second to die within a year.

from KCRW Features