User:Anita Miralle De Asis

Anita Miralle De Asis is an Oakland based Rennisance woman: businessperson, community organizer, performer & mover and shaker. Some of her accomplishment include:

Community Organizing/Social Justice: - 1991 Co founder of organizer of Concerned Students - which she started with a handful of other students onthe UCSB campus. These students were able to organize their campus, help create Concerned Students chapters on other UC, cal state, community college & high school campus across the state of California to demand an end to the privitization of public education, to end fee hikes on college campuses, defend affirmative action & ethinc studies, and demand a quality and relevant education. In 1992 Concerned Students successfully shut down the UC system in conjunction with community college & high school walk outs. The UCSB campus was successfully shut down for 1 week with the help of unions to demand an end to fee hikes and attacks on affirmative action & ethnic studies. - 1993 - 1994 member of A.S.I.A.N! Asian Sisters for Ideas & Action Now! - 1994 - 1999 co founder & Education Director of League of Filipino Student Bay Area -1998 - 2001 co founder & co director of Critical Resistance Youth Force - 1998 co founder of Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines - 1997 - 2004 teaching collective member of SOUL (School for Unity & Liberation) - 2001 - 2004 member of the Underground Railroad - 2002 - 2005 director of Mandela Arts Center/Raparations Records - 2005 - present founder & director of Healthy Hoodz

Performance Artist: From 1990 to present day Anita Miralle De Asis has performed more than 300 shows in 4 continents as a spoken word artists, dancer and thespian. besides being a solo artist, she has also performed with the AYE! Dance company, People's Artists, Overseas Artists and Underground Railroad. She has opened or toured as a solo artist with the following artists: Michael Franti & Spearhead, Dead Prez, The Roots, Tone Toni Tony, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Aya De Leon, Atzlan Underground, Rage Against The Machine, Boots Riley & The Coup, KRS-1, Souls of Mischief, Hieroglyphics. She has 5 books published with the People's Artists Printing Press (Oakland), and was the organizer for two successful open mics - dirty minds (west oakland's mandela arts center) and Toungues Untied (La Pena Cultural Center). She has been teaching spoken word, creative writing and theater arts in San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley schools, rec centers & after school programs since 1994.

Business Woman: 1990- present: owner and head chef of Something For Your Soul catering services (and has been fondly nicknamed the Lumpia Lady by her loyal and loving foodie fans. Besides providing full scale catering services, she runs on going pop restaurants at the legendary Oasis Nightclub, Ibota Lounge & Guerilla Cafe. She is also sought after at local nightclubs for party people seeking her food, including Club 6, Mighty, the DNA Lounge, Shattuck Downlow, Ashkenaz, Somar, Uptown Studios, Air Lounge, Paradiso, Cafe Axe.

2001- present: owner & designer of ital pinay fashion

2005 - present: founder & director of Healthy Hoodz