After completing the 2021-2022 cycle of oral history collection, WITTH’s cohort of undergraduate researchers, Eva McBride, Katrina Mitsuko Pagaduan, and Markus Faye Portacio reflected on the patterns and commonalities across all thirty-two interviews. During the summer of 2022, they collaboratively wrote essays that identify and analyze six themes: the creation of alternative kinship networks; performance of gender; narratives of labor; tensions regarding class and labor organizing; racial and ethnic divisions within the Filipino American community; and notions of Filipino American identity and belonging.

The WIITH initiative provides undergraduate students with hands-on training in various historical documentation, preservation, and analysis. Highlighting undergraduate research and writing is a core tennant of WIITH's public humanities pedgaogy.

WIITH will continue conducting oral history interviews with Pajaro Valley Filipino American community members during the coming years. At the end of each cycle, undergraduate team members will complete an essay in which they reflect on the oral history interview collection.