We look forward to expanding the WIITH Oral History Project by conducting more interviews with members of the Filipino American Pajaro Valley community. We developed the following research questions to direct the 2022-2023 cycle of oral history collection:

• What were the experiences of manong who did not marry or settle permanently in the Pajaro Valley? What were the circumstances that impacted manong migration back to the Philippines?
• How were non-heteronormative relationships expressed within the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community? What were the experiences of queer individuals in the Filipino American community? 
• Which strikes and unions did Filipino Americans participate in Santa Cruz and Monterey County during the 1920s and 1930s? How are these events remembered by the community?
• What factors affected Filipino American farm workers’ decisions about participating in United Farm Workers strikes and unionizing? How do our narrators interpret their families' relationships to the United Farm Workers Movement?
• How did women’s labor shape Watsonville’s agricultural and cannery industries? Did women in the Filipino American community participate in the 1985-1987 Watsonville Cannery Strike? 
• How did the manong facilitate transpacific relationships and connections across the Pacific Coast, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines? How are the manong remembered in communities within these different sites? 
• How did families of manong in the Pajaro Valley talk about the Philippines? What kinds of ties did the manong and their descendants maintain with their relatives in the Philippines?