Dream.Develop.Do.‘s first fundraiser “Empowering Each Other, Cultivating Community” went off with a “Boom, Bap, Ba-Boom-Boom, Bap!” Consider this a debriefing! The beginning of the night at the beautiful Sol Collective located in downtown Sacramento!   Traditional Aztec Dancers opened up the ceremony/program for the night… If you haven’t heard the epicness of a conch shell being [...]

Around this time last year I attended an art show in the SoMA called, “Diwang Pinay,” hosted by the  Filipino womens’ organization, Babae. At this particular event I ended up meeting several artists and musicians from the organization hosting to first time artists performing. I was thrown into a pile of networks that inspired me [...]

Dear Dwende Diary: I hope and pray I never lose my sense of sight, my sense of hearing or my ability to move because I realized just the other day while I was watching Janelle Monáe perform that I love live music. I think I may have even been made for live music. I know [...]

You know what they say, “your network is your net worth”. As we climb the ladders of ambition and career growth, we know it’s not always about what you know, but who you know. However, while all of these are true statements, I encourage you to go about creating your contacts from a different angle: [...]

They say all good things must come to an end.  For six years the most thought-provoking, if not always penetrable, show on television has been J.J. Abrams’ Lost.  Does anybody really remember the landscape of network television in 2004?  It was grim (not that it’s a wonderland of awesomeness now).  Lost changed that, and opened [...]

It’s tricky business, I would imagine, telling a story that has been told many times before.  Everyone knows it already so why bother seeing it again?  The solution is in the way you tell the story.  You need to present a fresh take on the material.  I suppose Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood does do that [...]

“Empowering Each Other, Cultivating Community” Dream.Develop.Do., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is a California non-profit charity that my family, friends and I started to provide solutions to the growing problems our state is facing. Started in September of 2009 Dream.Develop.Do. began as an idea that we, as young organizers and activists, needed to take care of [...]

I found this list that I wrote for myself over 3 years ago. Finish what you start. Learn to say no. Make lists. Cry. Laugh. Be open to the possibility of speaking to every stranger. Love. Only this. Write without Internet access. Be present. Maintain the relationships that you have built with mentors, students, and [...]

“There are no more heroes.” The other night, as my musician friends explained to me the concept behind their album title, I began to wonder if it were true. Do we live in a world where heroes no longer exist? Have we diluted the mysticism of celebrity that was once only reserved for the remarkable? [...]

“I am Iron Man.”  Great first line of a song by Black Sabbath (the first one I learned to play on guitar as a matter of fact).  Great last line of a movie.  The whole secret identity thing has been done to death, so in one awesome concluding scene the film Iron Man did away [...]